Juries and judges making examples of people?

Nothing new there; that's been going on for thousands of years.
Usually there's more "mirage" than justice in some "puppet play"
overseen by an "old fossil" holding a gavel who can't see past a
byzantine collation of law.

Having said that, I don't believe Ms. Thomas in any way shape or
form. Spoofing an IP addy? Gimme a break. So she's saying that
1) someone snuck a CAT5 cable into her house and hooked it up
to her router or 2) that same person camped out on her wireless
setup.

Two problems:

1) no one breaks into someone else's residence for the bandwidth
via CAT5, and...

2) what kind of bandwidth are you going to get cracking someone
else's wireless?

No one, and not much.

The woman's not stupid. From what I read, she swapped out her old
HDD for a new one before she got busted. The real problem here is a
recording industry that is totally incapable of dealing with a new technology
and is increasingly being left behind not only by consumers, but more
importantly, by the artists!