There are a few things I hear people say that I disagree with.
I think people who complain about the Beatles pin having music from the Beatlemania era and not later "cool" songs are revealing themselves to have simplistic tastes, maybe.
I think Gary Stern is good at his job.
I think the DLC stuff Stern is doing will probably all be fine and good for everyone in the long run. The non-controversial flip side is that people who bought the Jurassic Park topper for the topper-exclusive mode kind of got screwed when Goat Mania became DLC. Which is unfortunate.

Here's what wikipedia has to say: "Townshend initially claimed that he accessed the images as research in a campaign against child sexual abuse;[146] in 2012, he wrote in his autobiography, Who I Am, that he had accessed the illegal images to prove that British banks were complicit in channelling the profits from paedophile rings.[147] An article by investigative reporter Duncan Campbell that was published in PC Pro magazine revealed that police had no evidence that the website accessed by Townshend involved children and nothing incriminating was found on his personal computer.[148]"

It seems at least plausible to me that he is telling the truth.

Edit: In case you're wondering why Pete Townshend would take it upon himself to investigate and try to stop this sort of online criminality, he was molested as a child. A performer named Barry Crimmins did something similar.