Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Music news Skwerl to plead guilty over uploading Chinese Democracy
Posted by Chad Radford @ChadRad on Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 5:27 PM
According to Wired.com Kevin "Skwerl" Gogill, who is best known as the guy from LA who was arrested on accusations of uploading nine pre-released songs from Guns N' Roses epically forthcoming Chinese Democracy, will plead guilty to one federal count of copyright infringement.
As part of a plea deal that will be entered on Dec. 8, Cogill, 27, will will plead guilty to uploading the songs to his site Antiquiet, and face up to one year in prison for a misdemeanor charge of copyright infringement.
Cogill is the first Californian charged under a 3-year-old federal antipiracy law that makes it a felony to distribute unreleased copyright works online.
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