Sarah Ward, a 66-year-old grandmother in Newbury, Massachusetts, was sued by the Recording Industry Association of America for downloading songs on KaZaA, including Trick Daddy's "I'm a Thug." Since Sarah uses her Macintosh computer to email her kids and grandkids--and since a Macintosh can't run the KaZaA file-sharing service--the full legal weight of the music industry failed to extract from her the usual little symbolic settlement that they seem to be going after. The association withdrew the case as "a gesture of good faith." How about a gesture of "We're morons"?
October 2, 2003 5:25 AM
