Savannah used our news submit to tell us that the RIAA has
accused a dead grandmother of downloading music. The woman accused is Getrude
Walton and she has supposedly downloaded 700 songs off P2P networks,
and the RIAA wants the matter to be seen in court. Gertrude has
supposedly been breaking the law persistently even, ignoring requests from the
RIAA to pay compensation. The RIAA didn't seem to realise that
the women has been dead since December 2004.
The RIAA has found its
first case of dead women stealing from it, though this isn't the first case of
mistaken identity for the RIAA. Even when the woman was alive she didn't even
have a computer in her home as she didn't know how to use one. The daughter of
the women even sent her death certificate to the RIAA, but this did not convince
them one bit. It was only after members of the press questioned the RIAA's
tactics of suing dead people that the RIAA relented.
 IF YOU believe the RIAA, Gertrude Walton has been apparently down loading more than 700 songs off peer-to-peer networks and deserves to have the book thrown at her.The 83 year old Granny has been an extremely persistent offender and has the gall to ignore demands from the RIAA to pay thousands of dollars for her life of piracy.It is not the first time that the body has accused grandmothers of being music pirates before and dragged them into court before demanding huge wodges of cash from their pension books. However, the Walton case is particularly unusual because Walton has been stone dead since December 2004.
The RIAA has found the first case of an
undead music pirate who has apparently risen from the grave to nick music.
Being a zombie has apparently endowed Mrs Walton with new abilities. When
she was alive she would not have a PC in the house and didn't even know
how to use one. She certainly did not download anything before she
croaked. Since her death, according to the RIAA, she had adopted the name
"smittenkitten" and had downloaded more than 700 tracks stored on her
computer.Of course being a zombie she never replied to the RIAA letters.
Her daughter sent the RIAA her mum"s death certificate but that was not
enough for its briefs to believe that Mrs Walton had not got better.When
members of her Majesty"s loyal media asked the RIAA about its relentless
pursuit of pirates beyond the grave, a spokesman said that it may have
made a slight mishtake. The case will be
dropped. |
Source: The Inquirer
