Guns N' Roses "Chinese Democracy" Uploader Guilty of Copyright Infringement

The man who was accused of uploading 9 Gun N' Roses tracks pleaded guilty Monday to one count of misdemeanor criminal copyright infringement.

Kevin Cogill faces one year of confinement when he returns to court to be sentenced on March 3. But he faces no jail time in a deal cut with prosecutors, in which the 28-year-old agreed to cooperate with authorities.

"Mr. Cogill is cooperating with the government in our efforts to find the original source of the leak," federal prosecutor Craig Missakian said in a telephone interview.

This summer, Cogill was arrested and charged with uploading to his music site, antiquiet.com, nine tracks of the Chinese Democracy album. The album, which cost millions and took 17 years to complete, was released Nov. 23 and reached No. 3 in the charts.

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Tags:  GUNS N' ROSES, Kevin Cogill, Chinese Democracy, RIAA 

jason    December 16, 2008