I find it hard to believe that TM blocked an entire company's network, let alone an individual IP, there were outside circumstances involved.
1) why would TM block anyone thats not abusing them? If they are in the business to sell they wouldn't isolate who can come in the "front door".
2) If they were blocking IP's then sites like proxy.org would be blocked as TM would interpret that as a small few devices accounting for a large amount of traffic, essentially a brute-force/denial of service attack, which is essentially what the brokers' software is doing, and why TM was able to get an injunction put in place to stop it.
3) the same theory applies to those that believe the scalpers/brokers have the ability to block out those in their geographic area. What is more likely to be happening there is network saturation from all the legitimate people trying to get to TM, and the ISP's network gets overloaded, this seems more likely to be the case w/ cable/DSL providers, as bottlenecks are known occurrences at the neighborhood/head end, not the backbone. Think peer2peer downloads and Comcast.
First of all, why are you questioning the veracity of what I wrote? What POSSIBLE reason could I have to make that up?? Second, it's 100% true. The woman at TM said that if you refresh too many times you get tagged, and if they deem that they THINK you MIGHT be a scalper because of that (there is NO criteria other than the refreshes) they will block your whole IP for 24 hrs. My company is in no way affiliated with anything that could be construed as entertainment, it is an environmental company and is NOT entertaining in the least
I was just trying to help others avoid what happened to me, I don't appreciate they way you made it sound when you said you don't believe it. I don't really care if you believe it, if it keeps someone from getting screwed in the sale.
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First of all, why are you questioning the veracity of what I wrote? What POSSIBLE reason could I have to make that up?? Second, it's 100% true. The woman at TM said that if you refresh too many times you get tagged, and if they deem that they THINK you MIGHT be a scalper because of that (there is NO criteria other than the refreshes) they will block your whole IP for 24 hrs. My company is in no way affiliated with anything that could be construed as entertainment, it is an environmental company and is NOT entertaining in the least
I was just trying to help others avoid what happened to me, I don't appreciate they way you made it sound when you said you don't believe it. I don't really care if you believe it, if it keeps someone from getting screwed in the sale.
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