Mate I don’t even know if Aiko even does it or if it’s just larping but it’s been a thing for longer than I’ve been in eve, just, a thing for the gullible and perpetually frightened.
People don’t seem to realise you can just go to another part of space and quietly mine.
In essence, you don’t pay for a permit to mine, you pay for passage, but the passage only works on certain members of certain corporations and even then, only maybe, so why would you bother? You’d just roll your dice and crack on.
Either you pay for netflix, Disney plus, Amazon prime, paramount plus embedded in prime (but charged separately) and crunchyroll.
Or you sail the high seas.