Are you kidding me? Futile and meaningless?! Without the local and wider German press coverage, this thread would be deader than the deadest dodo, reliant upon the likes of the tabloids and people like Jon Clarke, neither of whom are in the business of serious or objective reporting.
The local German press in particular has done an excellent job, without which none of us would have a clue about what's actually going on in court. And I suspect that's the majority opinion on here.
Rather than dismissing it as futile and meaningless, perhaps it would be more appropriate to thank those who've gone and who continue to go to the trouble of reporting back from behind the paywalls, at their own expense, for the benefit of the rest of us.
Free advertising for what?