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by gremlinunderway 895 days ago
This is a pedantic and pointless distinction given the fact that the law regularly does in fact map IP addresses to people without additional forensic evidence. People are successfully convicted on the basis of an IP correlation to a device owned by an individual.

Juries aren't going to care about this distinction because the CSI effect makes it seem like anything technical is basically an immutable fingerprint.