Suspect of Guns N' Roses Online Album Leaks Arrested

In June of this year, nine tracks from the Guns N' Roses unreleased album, Chinese Democracy were released online without permission. The tracks were initially reported to be finished but later determined to be unfinished. More about the unauthorized release of the Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy tracks can be found here.

The unfinished Guns N' Roses tracks from Chinese Democracy first turned up at a website called Antiquiet.com and can be found here. The person responsible for the leaked tracks from Chinese Democracy appeared confident that he was within the "gray" area of the law since he was only making the music available for listening, as reported by Andy Greene at Rock&Rolldaily.com, you can click here to get to the article directly.

As a testimony to how eager fans of Guns N' Roses are to hear material from the unfinished Chinese Democracy album, minutes after putting the tracks up on Antiquiet.com the server was overloaded with traffic and crashed. Someone even offered him $1500 just to listen to a track from Chinese Democracy.

Unfortunately, Skwerl, whose real name is Kevin Cogill, was mistaken about the seriousness of releasing the Guns N' Roses tracks from Chinese Democracy. On August 27^th the 27yr old blogger was arrested at his home by the FBI who took him to the court house in his pajamas. Initially the judge set bail at $50,000 but was convinced to drop that fee to $10,000. In addition, the judge had suggested that the young man be summoned to court rather than be arrested at home over the Guns N' Roses tracks from Chinese Democracy and was not certain how the home arrest had come about. More details about Skwerl's arrest over the Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy tracks can be found at Antiquiet.com or you can just click here.

Arguments over the unauthorized release of the Guns N' Roses tracks from Chinese Democracy differ greatly. Some people believe that Skwerl was just trying to get attention by releasing the Guns N' Roses tracks, while others believe he has been ill-treated. Some fans of Skwerl have even suggested that Guns N' Roses could benefit by supporting the young man's release of the Chinese Democracy tracks. At Antiquiet.com, a donation fund through Paypal has been set up to assist Skwerl with is new financial duress resulting from the release of the Guns N' Roses tracks from Chinese Democracy.

Whatever the outcome might be, nothing can change the fact that the Guns N' Roses tracks from Chinese Democracy have been shared with the public and embraced with love.