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."

Comments

First old people, now dead people. What's next?

[bersl2]

Pets? Fetuses?

Old people like music too, and commit crimes

[acomj]

Have you people learned nothing from sienfeld and the simpsons.

From seinfeld, old people steal batteries and are notoriously cheap.

From the simpsons: The cat burgler is an old man.

If I'm retired there nothing to stop me from firing up Kazzaa, and when being summoned playing dumb. That old woman might have had mad Ski11Z. And frisky too judging from her sceen name.

You age discrimatory slashdot bastards.

Of course she might have just had an unsecure wireless router.

There's more to the story

[ari_j]

They were interfering with the business of the court. If you go into Congress and start making political jokes out loud, or into the Supreme Court and start yelling out "O'Connor's a homophobe!" at the top of your lungs, you're going to get in trouble. That's what happened here; these guys had been going to courthouses all over the place and being dumbasses specifically to interfere with the business of the court.