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spinbaby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 06:15 PM
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Music Industry Sues 83-Year-Old Dead Woman
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Gertrude Walton was recently targeted by the recording industry in a lawsuit that accused her of illegally trading music over the Internet. But Walton died in December after a long illness, and according to her daughter, the 83-year-old hated computers.

More than a month after Walton was buried in Beckley, a group of record companies named her as the sole defendant in a federal lawsuit, claiming she made more than 700 pop, rock and rap songs available for free on the Internet under the screen name "smittenedkitten."

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."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=817&e=1&u=/ap/music_lawsuit
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Heyo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 06:19 PM
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1. smittenkitten is 83 years old?
I've been having cyber sex with her!

:dunce:

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d_b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-05 06:26 PM
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