So the Dutch prosecutor seemed to back and forth on this over the months. At the worst times they would say: hey, it was your choice to remove control over the smart contract so you're responsible for the consequences. But most of the time the argument was that Tornado Cash / Peppersec was run like a business and it's *not* about merely writing code.

But even the latter is not comforting. Not being allowed to make money from a privacy-friendly product is a massive disadvantage in the market dominated by ad fuelled surveillance tech.