WASHINGTON – A bill that seeks to stop scalpers from using computer-hacking software to instantly gobble up online tickets for concerts and other live entertainment events has cleared the House. The ...
The pain of narrowly missing out on concert tickets is an all too common feeling. While we might be quick to blame our reflexes, scalpers employing bots have been wreaking havoc in the now mostly ...
Two Long Island companies were among six ticket brokers fined $4.1 million combined for illegally purchasing and reselling hundreds of thousands of tickets to concerts and other events since 2011, ...
E-commerce has revolutionized the event industry. Just a few years ago, if you wanted tickets to a sporting event, concert or some other popular community event, you had few options. You could visit ...
Sen. Chuck Schumer and Hamilton composer and actor Lin-Manuel Miranda are dueling together to fight a tricky Broadway menace – ticket bots. At a joint press conference, the politician and the ...
As someone who often tries (and fails) to buy tickets to various shows and hosts ticketed events myself, I know how broken America’s ticket industry is. If you’ve ever tried to buy a ticket to see ...
"We are committed to ending the scandal of ticket touts," Housing Minister Steven Reed told BBC News, saying that ministers ...
From sold out to shut out, fans are finding it harder and harder to score seats to the big event without shelling out big bucks to a scalper. The culprit: ticket bots. Ticket bots are computer ...
Even if Hamilton creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda eliminates every electronic “bot” that scoops up thousands of tickets and helps shady brokers resell them at insane prices, he’s unlikely to make a ...
On the defensive for using its own bots to bypass CAPTCHA, two firms file counterclaims against the Live Nation subsidiary. By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large According to Ticketmaster, the ...
“HAMILTON”, the hip-hop Broadway musical about one of America’s founding fathers, has broken all sorts of box-office records. Demand is high because it is exceptionally good. But this is not the only ...