08.01.2014 - 08:52 [ Techdirt ]

The Full Story Behind The RIAA & FBI‘s Insanely Wasteful Prosecution Of The Dude Who Streamed Guns ‚N Roses Album

Back in the summer of 2008, we wrote about the bizarre move by the FBI to arrest Kevin Cogill, at gunpoint, for having posted a bunch of tracks from the as-yet-unreleased Guns ‚N Roses album, Chinese Democracy. Of course, as pretty much everyone knew, GNR (actually, Axl Rose) had been working on that album for over a decade, pretty much refusing to ever release it. It was the vaporware of the music industry.