In click fraud, it's the platform company defrauding the ads purchasers, by claiming the clicks are legit.

All this guy did was break TOS, and find a broken business model. No fraud. Should have found a lawyer.

> Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio, or television communication in interstate or foreign commerce, any writings, signs, signals, pictures, or sounds for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice

It’s wire fraud

Not it’s not. Creating fake accounts and instructing them to listen to music does not generate any money. The actual money generation, the actual fraud, was carried out on his behalf when the platform claimed the listens were real and charged the advertisers for it.

Under the letter of the law, this is just a TOS violation.

What were the false or fradulent pretenses, representations, or promises?

A false representation of user interest

by accessing something on the internet with curl do I falsely represent using a browser?

Are you a lawyer?

Whether the data is arriving on a wire, a physical hard drive, DVD, or book, doesn’t really change anything.

It is the role of customs to inspect the physical goods (i.e. physical light) that crosses the border. These are fiber connections the UK themselves chose to install. No one forced these data imports on them.

North korea and China for example have extensive infrastructure to inspect and reject imported data.

Perhaps it was a sperm donor? There doesn’t necessarily have to be a traditional father.

That is a good point, although if that is the case the story should have mentioned it for perspective.

Couldn't this be summarized as the Sodium Vapor technique but with near-IR? Or do I misunderstand something?

That is exactly what it is. Move the mask light out of the visible spectrum so that the masking operation does not interfere with any colors.

The sodium vapor light process was the best tech in the 1950s, Sodium vapor lights were used because they deliver a very pure single wavelength light. But we can do better now. leds natively illuminate with a single wavelength(and we have to put a lot of engineering into them not doing this) and we have cameras that can view frequencies that the eye cannot. put this together and in theory you can do the single frequency illuminated backing sheet mask(green screen) with a frequency that is not visible to the human eye and therefore does not interfere with any of the colors in the final shot.

more often than not, you could just buy the same new CPU on the open market and swap it in. It bypasses secure boot, etc.

It’s artificial, it’s general, and all things considered it’s pretty damn intelligent.

It doesn't matter if it's legitimate. The people that use it don't care. They just find it online and click download. This is the reality.

Indeed, we could start everything +1 hr later I suppose.

Which practically puts us back into standard time, as things should be