BetaNews is reporting that the RIAA has filed a suit against an elderly woman who passed away in December. She is accused of sharing 700 rock and rap songs.
The Recording Industry Association of America admitted that Walton was likely not the person they were after, blaming the mixup on the time it takes gather information on illicit fileswappers.
“Our evidence gathering and our subsequent legal actions all were initiated weeks and even months ago,” said RIAA spokesman Jonathan Lamy. “We will now, of course, obviously dismiss this case.”
As BetaNews points out, several people are using this scenario as an example of what’s fundamentally wrong with the RIAA’s tactics.
