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.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 34 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

Wait, is that a problem with usenet?

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 3 points 1 week ago

If this is true, they need to prove it in court... It seems like they are just throwing out pedo shit to distract from idiotic waste of resources to protect some US parasites "property"

[–] laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What a sloppy way to write this article. Header text to indicate CSAM then just naming people liberating netflix. Does german netflix stream CSAM? Or is this news outlet just kind of implying these people are sex criminals for fun?

On a different note, would love to hear from/about the 15 out of 18 people who were searched in Feb and apparently got away. Either being targeted for harassment by authorities, huge false positive fuckups, or have amazing opsec.

[–] needanke@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

then just naming people liberating netflix.

The arrest warrant for a 25-year-old from Hamburg has since been extended because he is now suspected of inciting serious sexual abuse of children via a messenger service and producing child pornography content, among other things.

Those are two very different things...