p2pnet.net News:- Reverberations from the Big Music cartel’s latest fiasco continue to echo through the hallowed halls of the corporate music business.

“Speaking of dimwits, lawyers for the recording industry tried to bust a dead, computer-illiterate granny for P2P file sharing,” says the Seattle Times.

It’s referring to the fact the cartel’s RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) attempt to sue an 83-year-old grandmother who’d passed away.

According to the RIAA, the grandmother, Gertrude Walton, had been sharing on the p2p networks under the nick ‘smittenedkitten’

But her daughter, Robin, says her mother objected to having a computer in the house and, “wouldn’t know how to turn on a computer” and that in answer to a letter from the RIAA on the upcoming legal filing, she’d faxed a copy of her mother’s death certificate to the RIAA.

But all is well.

RIAA spokesman Jonathan Lamy says the record label enforcement organization, “will now, of course, obviously dismiss this case”.

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See:-
dimwits - Sounds of silence, Seattle Times, February 7, 2005
obviously dismiss - RIAA sues dead woman, p2pnet, February 4, 2005

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