My assessment of the whole situation...

Did Eric tell the rest of the mod team he got a legal letter - yes.
Did he really get one or was it a saving face attempt after the fact because he kowtowed to the GNR camps request - possibly.

Why did thenewguns website and cd.com censor the stuff.  They haven't mentioned anything about a legal letter?  Have they all suddenly got the same collective social conscious or did they just get the same request to take it down as Eric with an implied loss of privileges if they don't follow suit.  With no legal threat at all?

If they really did get a letter threatening legal action why wasn't that sent on to other sites.  Metal Sludge had that list up and the Ron stuff, if they already had the letter drawn up how hard is it to send it on. I would suggest Metal Sludge has a bigger following than mygnr too. Similarly whilst this site is small we kept the stuff but didn't get one.

Also why has all the stuff conveniently come out now after MSL has been silenced.  He has presumably done some sort of deal and so can no longer talk about it.  So he can't pipe up and perhaps provide a different perspective on this.  Oh hang on, Eric is back from holiday now, that's why a month later they can conveniently offer saving face answers.  This just happens to coincide with the MSL dog being put on a chain.

Finally, if they really did get a lawyer letter then they may wanna rethink how valuable those backstage passes are.  Because this highlights that they will turn on you and throw you to the dogs in an instant if it's in the Guns camps best interests.

On a side note I saw this posted somewhere else which I though was interesting because I already thought it when I read the thread.  High Voltage said

Then one of the other mods Montrealer comes on and says:

Jeez people at least get everybodys story straight if you want people to believe you.

I wonder if he pissed in it

It would be good to see large versions of that artwork on the LP, (obviously with the skipping/vinyl quality issue fixed too).

You know I have often wondered if the Street of Dreams promo CD single you see on ebay now and then is simply a bootleg done up by someone that had access to the artwork in this book, or whether it was actually prepared offically for a single. 

The other thing I don't understand is how do we know anybody stole anything?

Nobody has been convicted of anything, the Guns camp certainly hasn't come out and officially told us something was stolen.  MSL made some cryptic claims about how he got the stuff, but then you wouldn't believe everything he says either.

So again where is the crime and where is the conviction? 

How does BP know anything was stolen?  I assume this was posted at cd.com?

The mods or mod there is still toeing the company line for the Guns camp for favours.  I'm surprised people still go there that site is dead as a door nail the odd time I poke my nose in there.