- by Scott Colothan
- Wednesday, July 15, 2009
- Photo by: WENN.com
Blogger Gets Two Months Home Detention For Leaking Guns N Roses Songs
A blogger who leaked songs from Guns N' Roses' latest album 'Chinese Democracy' ahead of its release has been sentenced to two months home detention.
28-year-old Kevin Cogill posted nine tracks from the record on the website antiquiet.com in June 2008 and pleaded guilty to his crime in December.
Despite Cogill removing them at the label's request, around 1,000 people downloaded the songs in the short time they were online.
At court in Los Angeles yesterday Cogill was sentenced by the judge to stay at home for two months instead of the six months sentence prosecutors were after.
Apologising in court, Cogill said: "I never intended to hurt the artist. I intended to promote the artist because I'm a fan."
It was originally thought that Cogill could be fined up to a whopping $100,000 but the judge waived this saying he was not intending to profit off the leak.
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Guns N' Roses formed in Los Angeles in 1985 by Axl Rose and Izzy Stradlin of the band Hollywood Rose and Tracii Guns, Ole Beich and Rob Gardner from L.A Guns. The newly formed group fused their respective names together to make Guns N' Roses. Before Tracii had even set foot on a stage he abandoned the project in favour of his former band. Despite the guitarist's pivotal departure, the Guns N' Roses moniker remained.
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