Blogger Arrested for Posting Unreleased Guns and Roses Songs of the Day

2008

Aug

Blogger Arrested for Posting Unreleased Guns and Roses Songs of the Day

A blogger who I talk to via email was arrested for posting Guns N Roses songs back in June. His site is called Antiquiet, I link to him randomly and I haven’t been able to reach out to him, because he is in fucking jail but I do have to say my piece about this shit, because it makes me fucking furious.

Before I go off, I just want to say that Guns N Roses fucking suck, they are a dated band that have no business reuniting and that’s probably why they are trying to generate some buzz around their shit, because I heard one of the songs on the radio and Axl Rose is a tired useless fuck with an irritating voice and every time an old Guns N Roses song hits wherever I am, I peace the fuck out, because it doesn’t bring back memories of High School dances, but does irritate the fuck out of me.

Now as someone who has a blog and deals with copyright shit daily and may even be the next on the chopping block of whatever the fuck I am doing wrong according to the big mean corporate man and law makers, I have to say that it’s a crime to arrest someone for having a space on the internet to air their laundry, talk shit and run commentary on shit they see and hear. I would never post a full album of a band on the site or host it on my server because I know the record companies are struggling and aggressive, but I do post pictures I find on forums and get emailed to me that I admittedly never take myself.

The dude did not sneak into Axl Rose’s house and steal his record or rip the record and post it online, it’s something that he came across because someone else stole it and he’s got to pay the price and if anything was just sharing information and not monetizing off someone else’s work because I am pretty sure he didn’t make money off distributing the shit.

I heard that he received a cease and desist to take down the songs and he complied, I heard he wasn’t even hosting the songs, and the fact he got arrested and not just sued by the record company makes no sense to me. Almost all Bloggers aren’t legitimate media sources, it’s one step away from a fuckin’ faggot diary, only a few make serious money, so how do they expect us to either license their shit that are set at crazy prices for real media sources, or know that what we are posting isn’t allowed to be posted. The whole thing is crazy….

I just wanted to get this out there, because we need to protect each other now that the internet is going more and more mainstream and is getting more and more controlled and we need to make sure we all have a place to express ourselves and opinions and share information without fearing the evil book burners knocking on our doors and taking us the fuck away.

I hope Skwerl, the dude behind the site, is staying strong and that all this blows over when Guns N Roses drops the charges like the pussies they are and he can turn around and sell his site to Yahoo for 20,000,000 dollars or some shit, but until then, I am asking you to offer your support anyway you can, we just can’t let these fuckers win the fight, or there will be no room for any independent thought and we’ll just be drones in their shitty society of lies….I don’t want to sound like some faggot hippy or something but I am mad about this and really fucking happy to be in Canada. It is a dark day for the Internet, Freedom of Speech and Bloggers today because this is just going to give other people ideas…they can’t get away with this.