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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[–] bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net 59 points 16 hours 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.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 26 points 15 hours ago (2 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

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 8 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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

math checks out sir!

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 5 points 9 hours ago

The newspaper provides much needed roughage and essential inks

[–] PiJiNWiNg@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

"Street value" /s

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

no self respecting crack head would pay the rate haha

what street?!?!

[–] PiJiNWiNg@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 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.

[–] Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world 7 points 7 hours ago

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