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.

    • sunzu2
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      331 month ago

      Drug busts are always valued at inflated prices too…

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

        • sunzu2
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          111 month ago

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

          math checks out sir!

          • metaStatic
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            61 month ago

            The newspaper provides much needed roughage and essential inks

        • sunzu2
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          41 month ago

          no self respecting crack head would pay the rate haha

          what street?!?!

          • @PiJiNWiNg@sh.itjust.works
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            41 month 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.

  • Zier
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    491 month ago

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

  • sunzu2
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    351 month ago

    All that taxpayer money wasted on this clown show…

    Gonna upload some more Linux isos today

    • @Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      111 month 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 🙄

  • Lad
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    161 month ago

    Salute to the public servants.

  • venotic
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    151 month ago

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

  • @brax@sh.itjust.works
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    121 month 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.

  • @uis@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

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