Following a complaint filed two years ago by a national pay-TV broadcaster, police in Germany say they now have three main suspects in custody following a huge law enforcement operation. Over 150 officers carried out searches against 18 suspects in 17 locations, with the aim of shutting down an as-yet unnamed illegal streaming operation with an estimated 30,000 subscribers. The three men, aged between 36 and 59, face charges including suspected commercial computer fraud, which carries a potential sentence of 10 years imprisonment.

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[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 10 points 11 hours ago

I'd love to download all the shit that's been pulled off Netflix since I've been a customer.

They pulled their content,
thus they don't want my money,
thus there should be 0 qualms in me re-acquiring their content.

[–] venotic@kbin.melroy.org 14 points 14 hours ago

Anytime I see "millions" or "billions" claimed in losses, I assume it's less than that and consider it whining.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

I want tax authority notice this and this and fuck brodcaster over for underreporting income in next month.

[–] bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net 66 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I love how they always assume pirates would be buying this shitty content at $3/episode in the absence of piracy. They'd be playing videogames or listening to music or podcasts if this crap wasn't free.

[–] Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world 11 points 20 hours ago

Yeah, I wouldn't pay for the shit I download.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 31 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Drug busts are always valued at inflated prices too...

Just classic bad faith behavior by the state to justify oppression of the working people

[–] shaserlark@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 hours ago

I think cops are just getting fucked over by dealers so they don’t know the real prices

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 11 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

a gram of coke in a kilo of flour is a kilo of coke

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 10 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

25g of saw dust in 75g of beef = 100g of beef.

math checks out sir!

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 6 points 22 hours ago

The newspaper provides much needed roughage and essential inks

[–] PiJiNWiNg@sh.itjust.works 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

"Street value" /s

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

no self respecting crack head would pay the rate haha

what street?!?!

[–] PiJiNWiNg@sh.itjust.works 4 points 21 hours ago

Lol, well I'm guessing they're just taking the weight, dividing it by grams (or whatever amount its usually sold to individuals in), and multiplying that by it's "dose value". So, for easy math, if 1g of coke goes for $100, and cops bust someone with a kilo (1000g), it becomes a million dollar bust when nobody would ever actually pay that much.

[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 13 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Salute to the public servants.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 7 points 22 hours ago

my heart goes out to them

[–] Zier@fedia.io 47 points 1 day ago

Is it x.com? I heard they were illegally streaming a ton of Disney things.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

All that taxpayer money wasted on this clown show...

Gonna upload some more Linux isos today

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day ago

My thoughts exactly. All this time, money and manpower spent to prevent some people from watching movies.

Good job assholes, you saved the fuckin day 🙄

[–] thefluffiest@feddit.nl 16 points 1 day ago

Probably one of those AI companies who don’t give a fuck about copyrights

Oh wait..

[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

~~I’m all for piracy but the moment you start charging for the content you’re part of the problem and colossally stupid.~~

Edit: reading it again and it’s actually unclear how exactly the “service” works. I don’t know why I initially thought it definitely involved payment

[–] osu@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

"subscribers" definitely sounds like payment... My guess is it was an Iptv operator

[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah that’s probably why