The criminal investigation department has busted an illegal streaming service – not the first this year. Customers must expect legal proceedings.
    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      22·
      15 hours ago

      Reserve judgements until there is some real evidence. Think of the children narratives open a lot of doors for intrusive actions and advance a pirate=criminal narrative.

    • BlueBockser@programming.devEnglish
      28·
      16 hours ago

      True, but only one of the suspects is alleged to be involved with CSAM. Also, it seems like that wasn’t the original lead the police were pursuing, given that the charges were added post-arrest. This seems very much like an anti-piracy operation that just happened to catch a pedophile as well.

    • GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.socialEnglish
      131·
      16 hours ago

      Yeah, I don’t care if you’re seeding the entirety of film history for free. If you’re also helping distribute child pornography, you deserve to rot.

      I do wonder if this is a usenet case though. I know that’s a concern for a lot of people.

      • Sailing7@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        16 hours ago

        Since usenet and direct download are a lot more popular than torrent in germany - it might possibly be one of those.

        • GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.socialEnglish
          5·
          15 hours ago

          It could be a case of intentional word play but the wording of the article makes it seem like it’s more than just usenet. Specifically the line: “inciting serious sexual abuse of children via a messenger service and producing child pornography content”

          It doesn’t read as though it’s simply CSAM traffic through his network and if that were the case, I’d imagine the other 2 would be looking at similar charges, but news media notoriously bad a properly representing tech so that’s what gives me caution.