Last December, blogger Kevin Cogill pled guilty to violating federal copyright laws after he was busted for posting nine songs from Guns N’ Roses‘ Chinese Democracy album on the Internet. Yesterday, Cogill was sentenced to two months of home confinement, one year of probation, and he’s required to appear in an anti-piracy PSA.
While house arrest might seem like a dream come true for a blogger, in reality, this is the stiffest punishment anyone has ever received for leaking music (not to be confused with downloading music, which the R.I.A.A. loves to punish). But that’s not to say there haven’t been consequences for being the first to put unreleased music out there. So before you publish that next blog post with an exclusive track, check out these 5 Notable Consequences For Leaking Music, and realize that what you gain in hits might cost you elsewhere…
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If you’re like us, you gave up on ever hearing the mythical unreleased Guns N’ Roses album Chinese Democracy somewhere around the time that Axl Rose came out on the 2002 VMAs dressed like the lost background dancer for Korn. Well now, in a pretty creative publicity stunt, Dr. Pepper is giving us a reason to hope again:
In an unprecedented show of solidarity with Axl, everyone in America, except estranged GNR guitarists Slash and Buckethead, will receive a free can of Dr Pepper if the album ships some time — anytime! — in 2008. Dr Pepper supports Axl, and fully understands that sometimes you have to make it through the jungle before you get it right.
Axl needs to do this'if for no reason other than to see if Dr. Pepper will go bankrupt when they’re forced to give away 300 million free cans. Remind yourself why Axl ain’t what he used to be by watching GNR’s frightening VMA performance after the jump…
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