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Man Arrested for Posting Guns 'N' Roses Songs

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LOS ANGELES - Federal officials on Wednesday arrested a man on suspicion of violating copyright laws for placing songs on the Internet from an unreleased album by rock band Guns N' Roses.

Kevin Cogill, 27, who has no known direct affiliation with Guns N' Roses, posted nine tracks from the band's upcoming album “Chinese Democracy" on his Web site, said Laura Eimiller, a spokeswoman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The long-awaited upcoming album from Guns N' Roses, a hard-rocking group that came to fame in 1987 with the album Appetite for Destruction, is the band's first since its 1993 release The Spaghetti Incident?

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