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Man Pleads Guilty To Leaking GUNS N' ROSES Tracks

December 15, 2008

NBC Los Angeles reports that a Culver City, California man Monday pleaded guilty in Los Angeles federal court to a misdemeanor count of violating federal copyright laws by leaking on the Internet songs from a then-unreleased GUNS N' ROSES album.

Kevin Cogill, 28, who uses the online name "Skwerl," admitted to U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul L. Abrams that he posted nine tracks from "Chinese Democracy" on the Internet blog Antiquiet last June, five months before the album was officially released.

"I got my hands on pre-release versions of GUNS N' ROSES songs — something my audience was heavily anticipating," Cogill told the judge.

Asked if he uploaded the material onto his Web site for financial gain, Cogill said he didn't, "but I understand all the attention helped me."

Read the entire report from NBC Los Angeles.

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