Thanks to David Kravets of Wired.com for the following:

The Los Angeles man arrested on accusations that he uploaded nine previously unreleased GUNS N' ROSES songs from the upcoming Chinese Democracy album has agreed to plead guilty to one federal count of copyright infringement as part of a deal, authorities said Monday.

"Yes. There is a plea deal," Los Angeles federal prosecutor Craig Missakian said in a telephone interview.

Kevin Cogill, who the FBI said confessed to uploading the nine songs last summer to his music site, antiquiet, is scheduled to enter a plea December 8th. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Still, authorities reduced the charge from a felony to a misdemeanor last month — a move that exposes him to a maximum one-year prison term, down from the previous five years. Because of an acceptance of responsibility and the defendant's lack of a criminal record, the 27-year-old Cogill is likely to receive substantially less time, if any.

"His sentence is up to a judge," Missakian said.

Cogill's attorney, David Kaloyanides, was not immediately available for comment. It was not known whether the 27-year-old Cogill, as part of the deal, must acknowledge where he obtained the nine tracks he is accused of uploading on June 18th.

The Recording Industry Association of America brought the case to the FBI's attention, according to court records.

As previously reported, Guns N' Roses will release Chinese Democracy on November 23rd. It's slated to include the following 14 songs: 'Chinese Democracy', 'Shackler's Revenge', 'Better', 'Street Of Dreams', 'If The World', 'There Was A Time', 'Catcher N' The Rye', 'Scraped', 'Riad N' The Bedouins', 'Sorry', 'I.R.S.', 'Madagascar', 'This I Love', 'Prostitute'. A countdown widget can be seen below: