Kevin Cogill, a man who admitted in writing two times to the fbi that he in fact pirated, and distributed the unreleased guns n roses album titled “'Chinese Democracy” has plead not guilty in court earlier today.

Cogill was arrested in August at his Los Angeles home and released on bail the same day. He faces three years in federal prison if convicted, and five years if the court finds he posted the songs for commercial gain.

Kevin, who has support from many online who are helping pay for his defense fund (ref link removed), is now  able to fight in what most thought would be a quick ending to a ‘open and shut’ case. Originally Kevin was being represented by the federal public defender’s office but now has retained his own attorney, David Kaloyanides.

We reported earlier that Kevin not only admitted to the crime, but did it in writing, signed.  According to the United States (on behalf of the AUSA and FBI), Cogill on June 24th, 2008 signed a confession in which he admitted to posting the unreleased songs, and removed them because of the attention it got, causing the server running his website to crash because of the amount of traffic it generated.

You can read the original complaint here:

Guns N' Roses said in a statement at the time of the arrest that while it did not condone Coghill's actions, "our interest is in the original source" of the material. Mrozek declined to comment on whether there would be any additional arrests.