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Entertainment & Sports

Jul. 23, 2009

Blogger Sentenced for Posts Of Guns N' Roses Songs

A blogger who posted nine then-unreleased songs from the long-awaited Guns N' Roses album "Chinese Democracy" to his Web site has been sentenced to home confinement and probation. Is it enough?

By Jean-Luc Renault
Daily Journal Staff Writer

A blogger who posted nine then-unreleased songs from the long-awaited Guns N' Roses album "Chinese Democracy" to his Web site has been sentenced to two months of home confinement and a year of probation.

Is it enough?

As online piracy threatens to hollow out the economics of the entertainment industry and legal enforcement actions migrate from the civil arena to the criminal one, prosecutors...

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