Hacking Burning Man tickets with APIs and text messages

Re:Hacking Burning Man tickets with APIs and text messages by shrig94 on Monday September 15, 2014 @04:21PM (#8321249)

There is a question of at what point is this against the spirit of Burning Man, as the author mentions. Not really sure where to draw that line myself--maybe it's at the point of communicating with other burners?

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Re:Hacking Burning Man tickets with APIs and text messages by bradleysmith on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @03:30PM (#8326576)

how do you figure? I would ask the author the same question.

To me, building a robot to get yourself a Burning Man ticket is the definition of radical self-reliance.

I get the non-commoditification, gifting economy as a goal, but the demand for tickets outstripped the supply long ago. If you want to go, you have cleverness alone to get to the front of the pack. I'd feel building a robot to get the jump would be worlds better than allowing a scalper to profit from the purchase.

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