Update: GUNS N' ROSES Uploader To Walk
November 13, 2008, 15 years ago
The Wired Blog Network is reporting:
The lawyer for Kevin Cogill, the Los Angeles man charged with uploading nine unreleased GUNS N' ROSES tracks from the upcoming Chinese Democracy album, said Thursday his client's plea deal with prosecutors does not require any prison time.
"We're looking at straight probation as a result of taking this deal," attorney David Kaloyanides said in a telephone interview. Probation, which includes minimal restrictions, is usually a year, he said.
Federal authorities acknowledged the deal Monday, but provided no details.
With the assistance of the Recording Industry Association of America, the 27-year-old Cogill was arrested last summer and charged with a felony carrying a maximum 5-year term. The authorities, which said he confessed, subsequently reduced the criminal copyright charge to a misdemeanor, exposing Cogill to a maximum year of confinement.
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