possesion of stolen content question???? (Score 1)

What I do not understand about settlement offers, being accused and prosecuted for illegally acquiring copyright protected content online is that it would seem that you would actually have to have gotten the content. It seems that many people are being prosecuted as if they actually did get the content. Just because your IP address shows on a log kept by an ISP as connecting to P2P networks for particular files does not mean you actually ever got the content even if you admitted that it was you trying. Seems like there should be a difference, just like there is a difference between "attempted murder" and "murder", "attempted robbery" and actual "robbery", etc. With all of the corrupted files, downloads that were never complete for whatever reason, etc. It seems like they would have to prove that you actually obtained usable content illegally to be prosecuted for stealing songs, movies, etc. Otherwise you are just getting in trouble for downloading chunks of unusable data. Or am I mistaken, and all of these fines and court cases are about just "attempting" to get the content and not actually getting it? Is that why I don't ever really see this issue being brought up?