Perhaps the article did put it that way, but my understanding is that the lawsuits were aimed at the major distributors.
If she was uploading music, she may have had no idea that it was happening. For that matter, there's probably no way she could have known unless she were a computer geek...
Ignorance is no excuse for the law, as they say.
Please don't anyone take my comments to mean that I have the slightest shred of sympathy for the RIAA. If the downloaders are a horde of barbarians, they couldn't be battering down the gates of a more deserving feudal tyrant. My point is simply about the law.