Should the GNR leakers be worried
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
First Arrests Made For Violations Of The FECA
Two Ryan Adams fans were indicted last week for violating the prerelease provision of the 2005 Family Entertainment and Copyright Act. Familiarly known as FECA, the law criminalizes leaking songs onto the Internet that someone knows or should have known would be commercially distributed in the future.
Robert Thomas of Milwaukee, WI and Jared Bowser of Jacksonville, FL, who are charged with leaking songs from Adams' Jacksonville City Nights onto the Internet a month before its release date, are believed to be the first two individuals arrested for violating FECA. They reportedly face a maximum sentence of 11 years in prison. While the RIAA continues to attack those individuals who prerelease tracks onto the Internet, they still fail to take precautions against those responsible for providing the "pirates" with their advance copies.
In the event prosecutions result from the leaking of the Guns N' Roses tracks, the defendants should use the language of the FECA in their favor and plead that no one in their right mind reasonably believes that Chinese Democracy will ever be commercially distributed.
http://www.earvolution.com/2006/03/first-arrests-made-for-violations-of.asp
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