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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. Wow, just wow... by MattyCobb · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Shouldn't they be held liable (for more than just court fees) for wasting our justice system's already limited time with junk like this? After all, this isn't the first time something like this has happened :/

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  2. Shocking. by InvalidError · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The RIAA/MPAA/etc. have been making fortunes off dead people's backs for decades, it would be a logical next step to eventually extend this to dead customers.

  3. Frivolous lawsuits are destroying America! by Thud457 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Oh, wait this was a corp suing a citizen, not the other way around.

    carry on...

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