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The 83-Year-Old Dead File Swapper
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."
"Walton could not be reached for comment."
Unknown host pong.
Man, the RIAA is getting soft.
one way to keep from getting sued for swapping mp3s.
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
She's also reported to have voted in the last presidential election in OH.
I'm a big tall mofo.
file trading kills.
Scrame: Sunglasses are for assholes.
Does anyone know what the officially recorded cause of death was?
that file swapping is a grave matter.
*shudder* The horror... the horror...
I guess she was "smittened" with something terminal.
Ha hee heh hee... computers... terminal... I crack me up. :-)
--- Ban humanity.
Bah, she probably just faked her death to escape freaking **AA. I know I would.
Cozinha para as massas (e para geeks)
This proves what I've been saying for months. RIAA will kill you if you share more than 700 songs on a P2P application.
Your courageous and selfless spelling corrections have made me a better person.
WTF? She told me she was 18, blonde, slender and hot!
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
Just because some old lady died they're not going to sue her anymore?
This needs legislation!
Just because you die doesn't mean that you shouldn't be sued!
This
When you download MP3s, you're downloading rigor mortis.
truely great indeed. I hope whoever had those two arrested and any involved in their unfortunate incarceration get fined and arrested as well.
On Thursday, a spokesman for the Recording Industry Association of America acknowledged that Walton was probably not the smittenedkitten it is searching for.
Weak-minded fool!
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
great I can just hear the RIAA ad now.
A week after my mother died she recieved jury duty notificaiton. I called the courthouse and tried to explain. I was told I had to come in within the next two working days to get paperwork from three different offices. I told her, "No, thanks."
She was like, "You have to, its the law. Otherwise she won't be excused from jury duty. Make sure you get this finished within two days, and you better call ahead to find out what documents you need to bring with you."
I stated that I had in fact done them a favor, but it wasn't my problem, it was their problem.
She sputtered. "But you have to. You can't expect your mother to fill out her own paperwork to excuse herself from jury duty, she's dead! Someone has to do this!"
I agreed that someone had to do something, but it wasn't my concern. She was still sputtering self-importantly when I said goodbye and hung up.
She won't be trying THAT again!
Remember: Every time you share a song, a kitten dies...
"...Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam..."
They can bury me in a pine box for all I care.
Instead of a tombstone, I think that a life-size statue of myself sitting on a horse with a sword in my hand would be cool.
Facing forward on the horse would be a plus.
just saying...
she only died on December 11
Only? That seems like a fairly important event of a lifetime to me.
I'm just glad Walton had the balls to demand a trial rather than knuckling under and paying the typical $3,000 settlement.
- First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then ???, then profit.