French Streamer Dies Live on Air After Months of Humiliation and Abuse

When is it a crime, and how can the viewer tell? That popular Beast guy does stuff which amounts to humiliation or torture too, depending on the viewpoint. This case reeks of actual abuse, but consenting adults can do all sorts of things without violating any laws.

> Torturing someone to make money, or paying to watch it, is a crime. Police should act accordingly, seize the servers, retrieve the IP addresses, and arrest the criminals.

Absolutely — if what you are seeing actually exceeds the boundaries of consent. A BDSM session where a professional whips a restrained subject to tears would have to be held to the same standard. Obviously, the makers have a responsibility to ensure consent is given, recorded, and can be withdrawn at any time — ignoring consensual non-consent (CNC) in this case for the sake of the argument — and this police investigation may indeed uncover duress, but can a viewer realistically know?

(In this case, possibly, because of the way subscribers could pay for extra torture actions.)