Phreakmeister
April 7th, 2005, 09:17 AM
Music industry sues 83-year-old dead woman (http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2005/02/04/music_industry_sues_83_year_old_dead_woman/#riaa-sues-dead-granny)
February 4, 2005
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Gertrude Walton was recently targeted by the recording industry in a lawsuit that accused her of illegally trading music over the Internet. But Walton died in December after a long illness, and according to her daughter, the 83-year-old hated computers.
More than a month after Walton was buried in Beckley, a group of record companies named her as the sole defendant in a federal lawsuit, claiming she made more than 700 pop, rock and rap songs available for free on the Internet under the screen name "smittenedkitten."
:wall
February 4, 2005
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Gertrude Walton was recently targeted by the recording industry in a lawsuit that accused her of illegally trading music over the Internet. But Walton died in December after a long illness, and according to her daughter, the 83-year-old hated computers.
More than a month after Walton was buried in Beckley, a group of record companies named her as the sole defendant in a federal lawsuit, claiming she made more than 700 pop, rock and rap songs available for free on the Internet under the screen name "smittenedkitten."
:wall