He was not indicted because he was merely running a TOR exit node, he rather was indicted because chat protocols proved that he was aware of child porn being run over his server, and he even announced it to be better to run child porn over his server.<p><a href="http://m.futurezone.at/netzpolitik/tor-prozess-du-kannst-kinderpornos-auf-unseren-servern-hosten/74.093.526" rel="nofollow">http://m.futurezone.at/netzpolitik/tor-prozess-du-kannst-kin...</a><p>he himself says in his blog that this protocol parts are out of context. he wanted to get access to certain botnets.