Slash spits venom at Chinese Democracy leaker
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
On Fri., Aug. 29th The Los Angeles Times ran a follow-up story on Kevin “Skwerl” Cogill who is best known as the blogger who leaked Guns ‘n Roses perpetually forthcoming album, Chinese Democracy.
As a result of his leakage Cogill now faces up to three years in prison and $250,000 in fines.
In the Times‘ story former G-n-R lead guitarist and apparent professor of both law and philosophy, Slash is actually quoted saying, “I hope he rots in jail. It’s going to affect the sales of the record, and it’s not fair. The Internet is what it is, and you have to deal with it accordingly, but I think if someone goes and steals something, it’s theft.”
Thanks, professor… You know what else hurts album sales, sitting on a record for almost 15 years!
According to The Times‘ story the current incarnation of G-n-R cryptically addressed the situation with this, “Presently, though we don’t support this guy’s actions at that level, our interest is in the original source. We can’t comment publicly at this time as the investigation is ongoing.”
To read the full story in The Times, click here.
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