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Blogger Faces Felony Charge for Leaking Guns N’ Roses Songs

Posted Aug 29, 2008, 07:18 am CDT
By Debra Cassens Weiss

A California blogger has been arrested by the FBI and charged with a felony for posting nine Guns N' Roses songs on an unreleased album.

Kevin Cogill of Culver City kept the songs on his music blog for only a few hours until the band’s lawyers complained, the Los Angeles Times reports. He made them available for streaming but not for download. He was charged under a 3-year-old federal anti-piracy law and faces up to three years in prison.

Cogill is charged under the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2005, a law that has mostly been used to prosecute commercial piracy rings, the story says. He was released on $10,000 bond.

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