No, this grandma didn't download 'I'm a Thug'

[Nottingham]

No, this grandma didn't download 'I'm a Thug'
Associated Press
BOSTON -- In a possible case of mistaken identity, the recording industry has withdrawn a lawsuit against a 66-year-old sculptor who claims never to have even downloaded song-sharing software, let alone used it.

Sarah Seabury Ward, of Newbury, Mass., and her husband use their computer to exchange e-mail with their children and grandchildren, said Electronic Frontier Foundation attorney Cindy Cohn, who has worked with the family.
They use a Macintosh, which cannot run the Kazaa file-sharing service they are accused of using illegally.



Nonetheless, Ward was one of 261 defendants sued by the recording industry this month for illegal Internet file-sharing.
Ward was accused of illegally sharing more than 2,000 songs, including rapper Trick Daddy's I'm a Thug

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Cohn said she expects more cases like this to emerge, given the difficulties of tying IP addresses to particular individuals. She said Internet service providers like Comcast don't have enough IP addresses for each user, so they shuffle them around, and it is difficult to track which addresses were assigned to a particular account.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/headline/tech/2118712


So in other words RIAA are really basically screwed! :bounce:

[eileen_d]

1. I know that grandma

and she WISHES she were a thug! ;)

Just kidding... it's true, tracking down actual "crimes" will be like herding cats for the RIAA...

[GoneOffShore]

2. Check this out

For an interesting take on the Milleniun Digital Copyright Act check out http://www.willfulinfringement.com