Axl Rose sics FBI on person who leaked his songs

Some people have been calling Axl Rose the white man's Michael Jackson because of how eccentric he is. In our region though, he's still considered a major rock star. Especially if you were in your teens back in the early 90s. Anyway, Axl's Chinese Democracy has been delayed for 13 or 14 years now and it was just eventual that some desperate fan (why?) would find a way to leak the album. We read this on Wired:

"It's one thing to share an album that has already been released, which is illegal because it constitutes copyright infringement.

However, it's an entirely different matter to leak unreleased material, as a poster who goes by the nom de blog "Skwerl" on the Antiquiet blog discovered Monday.

Two "Mulder and Scully types" tracked him down at his workplace and questioned him about where he obtained the nine unreleased Guns N' Roses tracks that he distributed through his website, pictured to the right.

The agents also visited him at his California home at 7 a.m. Tuesday, according to Rolling Stone. "I wasn't sure if they were going to come by with a warrant and trash the place, like in the movies," Skwerl told the publication. "It was nothing like that."

The authorities wanted to see the original files, which Skwerl had obtained from an undisclosed source. However, he had already deleted them per Axl Rose's legal staff. So he directed them to copies of the songs that were copied all over the internet after his blog first posted them.

So many people downloaded the songs (including yours truly) that Antiquiet's servers crashed from the demand. Soon after came the obligatory phone call from an unrecognized phone number with a Los Angeles area code."

Read the rest here.