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The 83-Year-Old Dead File Swapper

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the posthumous-distribution dept.

93,000 writes "Gertrude Walton, a deceased eighty-three-year-old woman, was named as the only defendant in a federal lawsuit filed by a group of record companies. They claimed Walton made more than 700 pop, rock and rap songs available for free on the Internet under the screen name 'smittenedkitten.' Needless to say, the suit has since been dropped."

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  1. Stupid story by kamapuaa · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    What's the story here? The RIAA sued somebody for violating copyright. The person had died in the meantime, so they withdrew the lawsuit. Nobody acted out of place and Cowboy Neal is getting increasingly desperate trying to imagine the RIAA as an evil force.

    If he wasn't running Slashdot, he'd be making one of those crazy websites about how the Masons or the Lizard People are secretly taking over our government. Crikey man, get a grip.

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