Sounds right to me too. Stand your ground.
But this case is hardly about that. It’s about someone using technology to say somebody else did something that they may or may not have done. This went to court, and the case could not be found sufficient, so eventually all charges were dropped.
Look, I teach computer networking at Auburn. There are hundreds of sophisticated ways I could spoof an ip address to make it “look” like you did something on your computer that never happened. As a minimum, they need to have law enforcement or other third party inspect the computer itself. That could tell whether such theft as this really occured, but just by the date and time stamp of an ip address assigned by an ISP? Too easy to spoof to start demanding folks settle for thousands.
I have no problem with anyone protected their property rights, but not using sham tactics to do so. Too many folks use other folks lack of knowledge about technology to take them for a figurative ride.