FBI Visits Leaker of Guns n’ Roses’ ‘Chinese Democracy’
It’s one thing to share an album that has
already been released, which is illegal because it constitutes
copyright infringement. However, it’s an entirely different matter to leak unreleased material, as a poster who goes by the nom de blog "Skwerl" on the Antiquiet
blog discovered on Monday, when two "Mulder and Scully types" tracked
him down at his workplace and questioned him about where he obtained
the nine unreleased Guns n’ Roses tracks that he distributed on his
website, pictured to the right.
The agents visited him at his home in California at 7am Tuesday morning, according to Rolling Stone. "I wasn’t sure if they were going to come by with a warrant and trash the place, like in the movies,’ said Skwerl. ‘It
was nothing like that."
The "Mulder and Scully types" wanted to see the original files, which
Skwerl had obtained from an undisclosed source. However, he had already
deleted them per Axl Rose’s legal staff. So he directed them to copies
of the songs that were copied all over the internet after his blog
first posted them in a zip file. [continue reading @ Wired's Listening Post]
