South has a source, a "fight" and considers whores' well-being physically and financially, so off he went to gather dirt on Thylmann with his massive investigative and linguistic capabilities. South knows what he's good at and Google is his friend.
Google's translation engine is crude at best, generally amusing for those who know what went wrong and, in some cases, completely useless to an extent which lets its output state the opposite of its input.
"[...] The colleagues of the prosecutor's office Hamburg have meanwhile set a second case against Thylmann. They were investigated on suspicion that the Internet entrepreneur porn minors have made available. The adjustment to §154 Code of Criminal Procedure is always possible if an accused can expect a much higher penalty in another process. For Thylmanns control process that would not be good news. Alone for the violations of the protection of minors it could threaten up to one year in prison."
... is what happens when Google gargles German and South cares about minors; Thylmann obviously provided access to pornography to minors and got put on trial for it.
Is Google really South's friend?
"Eingestellt," in this context, translates to "closed" and doesn't have anything to do with "Einstellungen" ("settings") commonly found in video games or other software. Thus, there was an investigation whether Thylmann let minors access pornography, but this investigation was closed. The tax evasion investigation is still ongoing and the respective case pending.
Why would such a nice guy not exactly "present the truth fairly," why the "fight," the mission?
It could be because Thylmann restructured the pornography business, something which would've been done by someone else anyway. The keyword in corporate speak is consolidation, I think.
Thylmann held this talk in 2012; I posted it here a while ago:
In it, he said that people in porn tend to talk and behave differently from people in business and, as far as I recall, that this helped him buy several companies in porn.
That softer material is considered as a door-opener to potential customers with conservative views is something which was mentioned on this board before, but XPT's porn oracle knew better and disagreed. Thylmann saw it as an opportunity to utilise Playboy's online presence as a means to market the products of his other businesses with actual hardcore content to various streaming services.
He also mentioned that it would be an undertaking to see how a "feature" company like Digital Playground could be monetised in the clip-based online distribution system prevalent elsewhere. Whatever they did internally, the whole brand is completely devalued. Their former big features completely vanished, their picture quality decreased - they shot on RED cameras as one of the first in the business and, unlike almost everyone else, actually knew how to let the footage look good -, their locations are generally shitty and nowhere near the condominium-flooded-with-light look from years ago. It all looks like the Real Wife Stories material from Brazzers now and has Keiran Lee crawling all over it.
Kayden Kross mentioned on the Porn Director's Podcast (at 39m 20s) that they didn't want to pay Manuel Ferrara's rate anymore at one point. She, like all their former contract whores, either quit or didn't get the contract renewed in the subsequent years. At least gonzo looked like this there:
Kayden Kross and Stoya have started their own little company, TRENCHCOATx, also to show the "evil monsters" at their former employers that the feminist revolution of absolute empowerment is just a few clicks and a subscription away.
Robby D., their former main and, at one point, only director is said to have quit the company because they didn't want to pay his rate as well.
Brazzers has decreased in clip quality, too, and now they have Brazzers House. It's basically some pornographic version of lame reality television - so classy. Their auteur director Brett Brando finally showed what's to be done with a unicorn once it's captured though:
In the YouTube clip hyperlinked to in the "Die Welt" article...
..., Thylmann mentioned that he as a programmer could easily see how many porn sites were operated ineffectively, that he could do it better and went out to find investors willing to lend him money. The guy's smart and knew how to use information he gathered in personal conversations with people possibly shit-talking about other people and actually deployed common business practices where they were formerly absent. Or he's a "foreign entity," a "nazi" and whatever else Rob Black called him, someone who doesn't have any business being in the U.S. business. Several people were willing to sell him their companies in any case. It was all probably just him as the head of an obscure conspiracy to enslave and exploit.
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