Report: Feds Demand Prison For GUNS N' ROSES Uploader

March 13, 2009

David Kravets of Wired.com reports: Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles are pursuing a 6-month prison term for a Los Angeles man who pleaded guilty in December to one misdemeanor count of uploading pre-release GUNS N' ROSES tracks, according to court documents.

The sentence being sought — including the calculation of damages based on the illegal activity of as many as 1,310 websites that disseminated the music after Cogill released it — underscores how serious the government is about punishing those for uploading pre-release material.

Read the entire report from Wired.com.

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