>>10137
This is a bit diffrent issue because as you said yourself charges were dropped.
and those men could sue government for damages because of slander.
The main problem for them was not CP but the fact that they paid for plain porn.

This is in fact common threat as some companies threaten to sue you for downloading porn torrents. and although the chance of them winning is slim you probably do not want your interests get public, so many people just pay.

Of course if you are worrying that your porn interests will get public that's a real issue because if some investigation will happen every user will get some visit. and in the typical police strategy the first sentence after Hi, will be "you were downloading CP" as the only way how they convict people is by getting their confession.