On Tuesday the American blogger who in June 2008 stole all nine Guns N’Roses songs from their new album “Chinese Democracy” was sentenced for one year on probation, said Associated Press. According to the decision made by Los Angeles Federal judge, Kevin Cogill will spend two months under the house arrest and will give up all his computers for check. Besides that, blogger had promised to produce a video for the Recording Industry Association of America were he is going to call for the online anti-piracy actions, notes Wired.com. Absolutely hard and difficult for someone who was doing something totally opposite, but in order to escape jail he will do even this thing. A twenty-eight years old Cogill had presumably understood his wrongdoing and began to co-operate with RIAA in December 2008, so they’ve dropped the orginal claim that could force him to pay three hundred seventy one thousand dollars. Prosecutor was insisting on some real jail time, but the judge has come to a conclusion that a young man had already ‘learned some lesson’. Surely, this decision is very mild and nice, seems to be extremely liberal, but fare because it’s still not forth of isolating someone for music. Even if it looks bad, jail sentence for stealing music should be replaced with some moral or ethical blame.
A Source: ThatsJustMusic.com
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