A little more detail would be nice here - what exactly was he accused of? Wholesale piracy or just copyright infringement?

These sort of rulings probably do more damage than help.

My understanding of the article, and the case, is that this is a fan who runs a blog, promoting the band. He wasn't selling on the music, nor making it available for download (although I recognise it would be a trivial task for someone who has a clue to grab the stream). All he's done is break the copyright. While that is technically a breach of a law, I think prosecuting for this sort of usage is overbearing and counterproductive.

I wasn't likely to buy the new G'n'R album anyway, but I'd be even less inclined to do so now, considering how their record label is treating their fans.

And all this over such a crap album? So not worth it, Kevin... SO not worth it.

The gems on this album are "FBI" and "Madagascar". Paris, because she kinda looks like Axl.

Like finding abducted children, investigating "the terrorizers" and such.

Well, I think the guy probably deserved something for for having probably no brains in streaming the music. At least he is in possession of stolen material.

The week when the album was released, it was third on the sales list with something like 275,000 copies [in the US?].

While it's not a great album, it's listenable at least.

This is nuts, surely the record company and artist have benefited from the hype, now they ruin all that by this wasted prosecution.

I was dead keen to get this album but now it is just a symbol of the greed in the record industry and now I will not buy it or see any concerts.