If there’s a German code that would work as you intended (if I got you right) but it doesn’t for you, since you don’t live in Germany, would it work to make the machine believe it is located in Germany?

They might have hardcoded a location into it, then you are out of luck. But maybe they determine it via the internet connection you use to update? So you could potentially have it connected to a VPN through your router, which fakes a German location? Probably too simple a solution.

So, first of all:

One key issue is “seat spinning,” where bots initiate the booking process but do not complete payment - by hoarding inventory temporarily, they reduce availability and may create a false perception of scarcity, which can influence pricing algorithms.

Pretty sure any “reputable” flight company is already doing that. I am not sure any consumer can really get clear evidence though. They don’t need bots for this, they just tell their booking portal to lie.

Moving on:

In some cases, bots resell the tickets they secure through “ticket scalping,” pushing genuine customers toward inflated prices or unavailable flights.

Reselling means people book flights via what, eBay? Is there a market for reselling flight tickets? Depending on the country involved, destination and so on these bookings require you to leave a name or even passport details.

I’ve stopped reading after this paragraph. Is this just an AI written article of made up issues?

OK. I cannot decipher from those 3 pixels how cheap those tickets allegedly are.

Congrats, dumbest take you could have on this.

fw?

Interesting choice to give them boobs. Not that the average reader cares that its only female mosquitoes that bite.

It’s fine to ask for money. Here I think it is just not clear why this would warrant a subscription model.

Yeah, not sure how that is confusing.

Fuck yes, Descent 2 was even better, with your small helper robot and even more cool weapons/rockets.

Is there any server component to it, other than serving updates? That would justify a subscription model, but I also cannot see any need for it for something like this.

Not sure on older Android versions but newer ones would show a small dot for the notification overflow.

Sorry, that is all the pixels this gives:

Don’t have a link to underline this but it was just a proposal and was not endorsed officially. This is not going to happen.

They do. They do not care. It’s part of the problem.

No. Carbon offsetting is a scam and does not do shit for the environment.

Yes, you almost got it. Well done. I’ll leave you with that.

No, the point is that just because you pirated it, it doesn’t mean you would have paid for the content if there were no way to pirate it.

Hell no. Too much drama.

You basically wrote what I did, but from a different viewpoint.

Your example with the cinema is also a typical apple and oranges example comparing a digital distribution with a physical service. Yes, when you sneak into a cinema the cinema provider is losing revenue because you take a seat someone else might have paid for. So at some point the cinema is full and cannot accommodate any more people that paid which would prompt the provider to check tickets.

There is no such scenario for digital distribution. You are not taking anyone’s space. The provider can sell their product infinitely often. You even already pay for the traffic you cause with your internet connection. It is a very different situation but is always equated because online piracy is of course the worst problem ever.

“The pay-TV provider suffered damage in the millions as a result,” the ZCB announced without providing further details. The content providers speak of high revenue losses due to piracy on an “industrial scale”.

Natürlich. Jeder hätte auf jeden Fall das legale Angebot abonniert, gäbe es da nicht diesen illegalen Service. Klar, macht Sinn. Gibt auf keinen Fall die Möglichkeit, dass die Leute dann einfach nichts abonnieren, natürlich nicht, nein.

Edit: sorry, didn’t realise this might be an English community. Just wrote sarcastically that obviously everyone who subscribed to the illegal service will now certainly go for the legal alternative. Which is why it totally makes sense to mark these as lost revenue. Absolutely not possible that people might just no subscribe to the legal service, nope.