Poor Kevin Cogill. FBI arrested him yesterday because of leaking nine Guns N’ Roses’ songs online. The songs were said to feature on their upcoming album, Chinese Democracy. His bail was set at US$10,000. As for the site, it got so much traffic after the songs were added that it crashed. Oh, the drama!

Gone are the old days when we could do just about everything online. Wrong words, and you’d get sued. Upload an mp3, you’d get busted. Download anime, you’d be fined. You can’t even post your kids’ pictures for fear of online predators. Bloggers, beware! The most you can do is just to chat with your relatives and share gardening tips on your blogs.

I’m not really against those copyright laws, but sometimes they’re just too much. I’ve lived long enough to witness an era where floppy disk didn’t exist, let alone CD. We did have songs though. The only problem is we can’t find those songs at any shops nowadays. Some (not all) are available on YouTube, but for how long? I’m too coward to try, but methinks file sharing is not always evil.