When she was in college, jammie thomas-rasset wrote a case study on napster, the online peer-to-peer (p2p) file-sharing network, and knew that it was shut down because it was illegal. later, capitol records, inc., which owns the copyrights to a large number of music recordings, discovered that "tereastarr"—a user name associated with thomas-rasset's internet protocol address—had made twenty-four songs available for distribution on kazaa, another p2p network. capitol notified thomas-rasset that she had been identified as engaging in the unauthorized trading of music. she replaced the hard drive on her computer with a new drive that did not contain the songs in dispute. is thomas-rasset liable for copyright infringement? when she was in college, jammie thomas-rasset wrote a case study on napster, the online peer-to-peer (p2p) file-sharing network, and knew that it was shut down because it was illegal. later, capitol records, inc., which owns the copyrights to a large number of music recordings, discovered that "tereastarr"—a user name associated with thomas-rasset's internet protocol address—had made twenty-four songs available for distribution on kazaa, another p2p network.