Hahaha! First genuine LOL for ages from this cynical BOFH!

So instead of being a forgotten 80s figure, this blogger helps keep up mr. Rose's name recognition factor? I say Rose's management owes the guy some money.

That was good sense indeed...

But gee, FBI arrests for copyright violation, sounds quite extreme. Not Extreme. But In Extremo.

I sincerely hope that you are not suggesting that 'the management' didn't say "stick this on your website and we'll look after you".

Personally, I run across un-released tracks from faded 'stars' every day and fight the temptation to put them on a web site.

So he killed geffen's future "Bob Marley" income chain dead now that man deserves a medal and a big reward at the same time !

I'm not sure, but I would recommend focusing on the murderers, rapists and thieves.

These aren't thieves. They found files on the internet and provided links to them. This is completely out of proportion to the "crime".

Next thing we'll have people arrested for LOLCAT posts. Some of those photos are copyright material.

They got all the terrorists and corporate swindlers and kiddy fiddlers and crack dealers and we can all go skipping through the streets to welcome the coming of the blissful utopia we have long been promised.

The one with the ticket to rural Portugal in it. (Yup, i'm not just whingeing, I can see whats coming (come?) and I've made arrangements)

he just didn't do as well as he could have if hadn't been such a hopeless drunk poor old Axel.

And it hasn't been since the rest of the originals left and their slots have been filled by whichever session musicians are hungry & desperate enough to put up with his Axl's tantrums for a few days at a time.

<- The one with cherished vinyl copies of Appetite and Lies in the pockets.

At least we will know it's shite and we won't have to waste any money finding out! To my knowledge the album has been promised by Mr Rose for the last 6-7 years, almost all the band have left him to it!

I believe the UN wants to have a word. Something about crimes against humanity (or at least their ears), I believe.

that the guitar god that is Slash is forever associated wit G&R.

At least they weren't all talentless.

Oooh.. that's a bit controversial! He does/did have talent, but he was so smacked out and drunk that he fired off the very reason they were all famous: the rest of the band! From what I saw at Download 06, he was just a grumpy old twat with no respect for anyone else..

He was a songwriter, and one of the most recognisable vocalists in the rock business, but to say he had no talent..? Naughty Graham, naughty..

@AC above: Agreed. No need to listen to anything new from G'n'f'n'R as Velvet Revolver did a good job. Just glad they binned off the anorexic junkie... Should have stayed as the EX-Stone Temple Pilots front man.

Anyway, Chinese Democracy was just a disaster waiting to happen... It doesn't matter who releases it first.. it's still shite

Paris, because she knows when she needs to release some good stuff on to the net.

Go get some real criminals.

I love the logic that law enforcement should only deal with a percieved "minor" crime after all the "major" crimes are solved.

By that wonderful logic the police shouldn't spend any time chasing after rapists because Osama Bin Laden's still out there somewhere.

I have listened to "Chinese Democracy" (beta) and it isn't good... This guy did Axl a favor, because now he can tell his label ( which reportedly gave him $13 million over 14 years for this album ) that it would have been a giant hit if it wasn't for those criminal downloaders. Because the labels believe and want to hear that downloading/sharing is ruining their business, Axl now has an excuse!

getting involved in what should be a civil matter for the lawyers? Yet more evidence that the US govt has been captured by the corporates.

How does this fall under the FBI? This is a civil copyright case.

I was reading in a recent Los Angeles Times about the problem that the FBI has had with the mortgage companies a few days ago. They spotted the potential for fraud two or three years ago but they were unable to do anything much about it because they were so short staffed, what with the investigation priorities being firmly biased towards terrorism.

....and illegal file sharing, apparently. Mr. Rose loses a few bucks (maybe -- and that's a big maybe) while the rest of us get screwed for tens or hundreds of billions.

>but to say he had no talent..? Naughty Graham, naughty..

Sorry but from the moment I first heard GnR I thought it sounded like a tired spandex rehash, nothing since then has altered my opinion. But then I felt the same about Kiss..

/Asbestos is our friend

Spot on Graham, talentless moron comes to mind regarding Axel Rose.

Never was any good never will be. Same with KISS.