RIAA Sues Dead 83 Year-Old for File Sharing
According to an Associated Press report, the RIAA is suing an 83-year-old dead woman for making over 700 songs available on the Internet under the screen name “smittenedkitten.” If that doesn’t seem odd enough, the woman’s daughter claims that her mother detested computers:
Walton’s daughter, Robin Chianumba, lived with her mother for the last 17 years and said her mother objected to having a computer in the house.
“My mother was computer illiterate. She hated a computer,” Chianumba said. “My mother wouldn’t know how to turn on a computer.”
Chianumba said she faxed a copy of her mother’s death certificate to record company officials several days before the lawsuit was filed, in response to a letter from the company regarding the upcoming legal filing.
The woman named in the suit, Gertrude Walton of West Virginia, died in December after a long illness.
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