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 ...
Ticketmaster has apologised after its site crashed and left thousands of Taylor Swift fans without tickets. Ticketmaster’s parent company Live Nation said that they should have done a “better job” by ...
If Ticketmaster’s Taylor Swift presale catastrophe taught us anything about the state of online ticket sales, it’s that the real market for live music experiences is not the market fans think they’re ...
As the FTC cracks down on ticket resellers for alleged violations of the BOTS Act, one targeted reseller files suit. NITO responds. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is threatening legal action ...
A group recently sued by the FTC says the organization is mislabeling common computer practices as "bot" usage. By Dave Brooks The Federal Trade Commission and a Maryland-based ticket selling firm are ...
People online have begun to notice that bots used by scalpers to buy tickets and resell them at a gigantic markup are showing up again, coinciding with people having the opportunity to attend various ...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- "Hamilton" creator Lin-Manuel Miranda is teaming up with Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., in a push to make automated ticket bots illegal nationwide. Schumer is pushing for ...