Blogger Arrested For Leaking GN'R • The guy the internet has to thank (blame?) for early listens of Chinese Democracy -- the very same one who had himself a little visit from the feds not so long ago -- has been arrested, charged, and released on bail over posting the songs to his site. The AP reports he "faces a maximum of three years in prison if convicted, and five years if it's found that he did it for commercial gain." This development was celebrated equally by the RIAA and all people who have actually heard the leak because it is pretty terrible and it's nice to have someone punished.
Posted at 9:17 AM
Tags: Guns N' Roses
I can't believe this guy isn't being thanked. The only time Chinese Democracy gets any publicity is when there's a story about it being leaked. If it wasn't for this dude, not only would we never have heard those songs, we wouldn't be reading about this album.... so lock his ass up and throw away the key.
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The real criminal here is Axl. No one should be allowed to make such horrible sounds and call it music. Isn't there some kind of noise violation law he could be locked up on, or maybe public indecency?
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yknow, i cant think of any special charges for it being unreleased or anything -- without like b&e or some other obtaining-through-illegal-means-type charge. It would seem to me that his crime was merely posting the songs that he didnt own the rights to. Does this seem a rather ominous turn of events to anyone else here?
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It baffles me that the RIAA still hasn't figured out how to regulate this stuff without making themselves look like total assholes...
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