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Fri
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So why did this verdict happen?
1. The RIAA was able to match a username and IP address with Thomas…
The fact that Thomas publicly used the nickname “tereastarr” including as a tereastarr@hotmail.com e-mail address — and then chose it as a Kazaa username as well — may have helped the RIAA immeasurably. If she had used a Kazaa username of “anonymous” instead, I wonder if the jury would have been more likely to take her side. The jurors seem to have flatly rejected (and reasonably so) her lawyer’s claim of possible IP address spoofing.
