The 83-Year-Old Dead File Swapper

[Solid Fro]

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."

http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/02/04/194212.shtml?tid=123&tid=141&tid=95&tid=17

Ms. Walton also participated in the 2004 election in Ohio and voted for John kerry...

 

[Acid X]

Well, Ms. Walton seems like a great grandparent. Not kidding, either. I ebt she was up for BitTorrent as well, hahaha.

 

[toyomatt84]

It's possible that someone IP swapped with her and the trace got re-routed to her house instead of the actual culprit's.

 

[VT]

Imagine IP swapping with the White House. Wouldn't that be interesting .. .

 

[cardude2004]

She is dead. How did they expect to prosecute her?

 

[RX-7_FC_DrIfteR]

She is dead. How did they expect to prosecute her?

haha, judge the next family memeber in line?