When five FBI agents arrested Kevin Cogill at his Culver City apartment, it marked the newest weapon in the entertainment industry's war on piracy: felony charges against small-time bootleggers.

Cogill posted nine leaked songs from an unreleased Guns N' Roses album that has been in the works for more than a decade on his music blog in June. The site crashed under the traffic, and he removed the songs after a few hours when the Los Angeles-based rock band's lawyers complained.

Now he faces up to three years in prison and $250,000 in fines. Last week he became the first Californian charged under a 3-year-old federal anti-piracy law that makes it a felony to distribute a copyrighted work on computer networks before its release.

"In the past, these may have been viewed as victimless crimes," said Craig Missakian, an assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles who built the case with the FBI and recording industry investigators. "But in reality, there's significant damage. This law allows us to prosecute these cases."

Cogill, 27, was arrested Wednesday and released on $10,000 bond.

"I hope he rots in jail," said Slash, the former Guns N' Roses lead guitarist. "It's going to affect the sales of the record, and it's not fair."

The entertainment industry has long fought to protect official release dates. It contends that sales are lost when a movie or song is available for free on the Internet before it hits stores. Leaked songs are often unfinished and of poor sound quality.

The Recording Industry Association of America has long relied on civil lawsuits to combat piracy. But the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2005 gave it has a new hammer -- felony charges with stiff penalties for posting even one song before its release.

The law has been used only a few times, mostly to tackle big commercial piracy rings. But in 2006, two people were charged with distributing a version of a Ryan Adams & the Cardinals album, "Jacksonville City Nights," on the Internet before it hit stores. They were sentenced to two months of house arrest and two years' probation.

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I think he should be locked up for posting Guns 'n' Roses shit!!!! Pre-release or not, that in itself is a crime.

think they came out with some pretty good tracks around the late 80's / early nineties but I'll agree, the new stuff is shit.

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Guns N' Roses = Shoot the Pricks ROFLMAO

"I hope he rots in jail," said Slash, the former Guns N' Roses lead guitarist. "It's going to affect the sales of the record, and it's not fair.".

Firstly, I thought Guns'n'Roses was now just Axl Rose & that the others had buggered off and started new things like Velvet Revolver. So what's this to do with Slash? Why didn't the ask for comments from someone actually in the band.

Second, it will affect the sales of the record, they'll probably increase dramatically due to the publicity.

Thirdly, people will almost certainly hear some of the songs on the radio before they buy the album, so what difference do a few leaked songs make? Plus if sales DID decrease it would be because people heard it, realised it was crap, then decided not to buy it. If their sales depend on people buying the stuff before they ever have a chance to hear it then it's kinda like a con where they're selling shit they cannot unload onto informed customers in any other way.

On the otherhand, if it's good, the more people who hear it, the more people who will buy it in the long run. Most of the best selling albums spent months or even years at the top of the album charts.

Fourthly, I may have misunderstood Slashe's comment. Lets look again....
"I hope he rots in jail, rotten bluddy bugger" said Slash, the former Guns N' Roses lead guitarist. "It's going to affect the sales of the record, straight threw the roof! Damnit and it's not fair.... because I'm not in the fuckin band anymore and that friggin bastard axl is gonna get all the extra moola from this free fuckin publicity".

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Having liked some of their older stuff I did find and post a copy of their new full retail rip, guess what folks - It's shit!!!

Whether they liked it at the time or not or even if they would ever admit it Axl and Slash only really worked well together and everything that either one of them has come out with since is utter bollox.

guns and roses made only one good track "november rain"

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