[LINK] blogger arrested

[Adam Todd]

'Cogill could be sentenced up to five years in prison if he is 
convicted as charged and the motive is determined to be financial profit. '

Under US law there ha to be a financial profit gained by the 
'distributor'  that could be so much as someone paying his hosting 
fees or bandwidth for that month, but has to specifically state this.

I suspect the case will fall flat on it's face.

However, the issue isn't so much about the songs being on his web 
site as to how they came to be in his hands!

G'n'R Lawyers will be looking for breach of contract with everyone 
who was on the production chain and no doubt we'll never hear about this!!

At 03:18 28/08/2008, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>This ironic. Note the album title. Who's the restrictive society?
>
>http://news.theage.com.au/world/us-blogger-arrested-for-leaking-guns-n-roses-online-20080828-44ig.html
>
>US blogger arrested for leaking Guns N' Roses online
>
>August 28, 2008 - 12:11PM
>
>US federal police on Wednesday arrested a blogger for posting songs
>from a yet-to-be released Guns N' Roses album titled "Chinese
>Democracy" online without the rock band's permission.
>[snip]
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