"According to law officers, Mathers was hysterical when police arrived and told them that she killed her boyfriend only after he accused her of illegally downloading music and erased about 2,000 of her MP3s. Mathers complained that it took 3 months to build her music collection."

"An autopsy performed Friday afternoon at Methodist Hospital showed that Brad Pulaski had been beat multiple times in the face and chest by a blunt metal object, and died of internal bleeding, said Dr. Felix Klamut, deputy coroner."

"According to Apple’s website, the iPod is partially made of a hard metal plate that’s been praised for it’s resistance to regular wear and tear, like drops and coffee spills."
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I myself already wondred if we wouldn't eventually see news like this poping up, thanks in not small part (I'm sure) to the recording industry's attempts to make everyone paranoid about all downloading, digital files, and the internet in general. It wouldn't take such a big leap to say that it could push people who already have mental problems or are so far gone, to go to extremes.

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Too bad it wasn't because she found out that they were going to be sued. Then the blame could be aimed directly at the RIAA... one can only hope...

Geeez...condoloences to the husband's friends and family...on a human level this is really tragic....
HOWEVER...
I think it does support my month's long claim that the RIAA should be considered "domestic terrorists" because, in this case at least, it seems their actions could be seen (by some)as the proximate cause of this homicide...using the " but for " argument...
i.e., "But for" the terroristic actions of the RIAA, the boyfriend would not have been terrified that she had downloaded songs, would not have erased them, and she would not have killed him in a fit of passion...

OK..they lawyers will tear me apart on that one...BUT....

I think the reasonable person on the street could reasonably make this connection...

Murder by a high tech MP3 storage and playback device...ONLY IN THE 21ST CENTURY...

The thing to laugh at is the ad under Related News at the site this came from.

"RELATED NEWS
Get great deals on the new Apple iPod mini. Starting at under $250"

Click here to buy this weapon! The same that was used in this murder, but smaller and more convenient! The cops won't even mistakenly shoot you thinking you have a gun! Hehe.

That is really sad. He probably freaked out that they were going to be suedby the RIAA. And she couldn't make him understand that what she did was not illegal. So stressful.

Guns don't kill people, iPods kill people.

Wow, I can't believe this is real. I thought it was satire at first.... What a nut job. The boyfriend that is....

Personally, I would have bludgeoned her for using an iPod.

Looks like background checks and registration for iPod purchases.

Someone forgot to take thier meds..........

Economists have written of the economic affects of the RIAA and they were seen as left wing ideas. Now we have undeniable evidence of the negative social affects.

Note to self: Do not delete anyones Mp3 files.

since she used an Ipod was these songs from Itunes??

anyway should we now introduce legesation in congress requiring background checks for anyone purchasing an Ipods?

These Mathers charectors really are psychotic people....

A&M's latest hits

"Dont touch my MP3s"

"Beat you with my IPod"

"Drunk, trippen, and on MP3"

I can just see the RIAA spin on this....
News Release....

"Another piracy related death. Illegal MP3 downloading woman
bludgeons boyfriend to death with piracy enabling Apple device.
Film at 11 "

I wish I could feel more sympathy for the dead boyfriend, (self-righteous prick) but I can understand this woman being really pissed off. Especially during PMS. Or taking angel dust. But how the hell can an I-pod cause that much injury? She stabbed him with it? Something doesn't ring true about this story.

Hey code. we've got pilliging (downloading songs) we've now got murder, all we need is the high seas then the term Pirate can apply. Throw some salt water on them

LOL,,,right compore

I would think the RIAA's perspective
on this would be:
"Well she can't download any
music in prison...that's one down
59,999,99 downloaders to go"

We are an oppressed minority.

If you download music, and someone disrespects, threatens, or assaults you -- or destroys your precious MP3s, it should be judged a "hate crime." With extra penalties for the perpetrator.

I applaud this woman. She fought back against the haters!

It's a joke, guys. It's a liquid generation site... check all the CNN-style links along the left hand of the page. I think the "Business Traveler" link goes to "This Page Cannot Get Laid."

Also, the picture is of the police taking a body out of a convenience store somewhere (see where it says "store").

Still funny, but let's not go trying to hire this woman for the downhillbattle.org PSA.

all joking aside though. I understand her anger but it doesn't justify murder. I feel sorry for any murder victim reguardless how wrong they were.

halfwit very good eye. I thought it was too weird to be true. I went there to check and when you click on home you get a weird website that spews popups and loops back on it self not letting you use the back button. never occured to me to check that out. Perhaps we need to make sure these stories are labeled as a parody, joke etc.

Hahaha, yeah, it sounds like an Onion story.

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Parody or not, it shows the potential for the inflammatory, hate-mongering rhetoric from the likes of Orrin "Down-the-" Hatch and Lamar Smith leading to something like that.

If there were true justice in the world, those in power like Hatch and Smith who condone the RIAA's evil, cruel, inhuman, merciless street-thug tactics would be nailed for incitement to commit violence.

Because the next time could be even worse . . .

certainly amusing =)

True or not this story might tip the
RIAA off to a new tactic they can use
against music downloaders.
I can see the rap lyrics coming out
now "bang em on the head until they're
dead............".

good eye half, I wondered myself when I searched for news on it in google and got nothing.

Question.. did this happen on a houseboat, and did she take anything belonging to her boyfriend after alledgedly bludgeoning him with said ipod.

if so we do have a true case of piracy on the high seas....

oh.. it was an apartment.. too bad RIAA.. still not piracy

hey id be pissed off if someone erased all my mp3s too
i kicked a hole in my old computer for doing that

Maybe i can Hijack a plane with my I-Pod