Congress vs. the BOTS

lolobugg

http://www.pollstar.com/news_article.aspx?ID=826875

A new article discussing how tickets are being secured and resold at insanely high prices.
20 years after PJ brought this to the Justice Department, US Congress are finally looking into it. Seems like the enemy this time is the Ticket Brokers.
I hope something comes of this other than just lip service.

Kat

Cynical me. I smell photo op and get the youth vote. :(

HesCalledDyer

Kat said:

Cynical me. I smell photo op and get the youth vote. :(

Hopefully not, but this being an election year you're probably right.

pjhawks

and yet the simplest way would be to let the bands and artists sell the tickets themselves but ticketmaster will never allow that. Complaining about bots is a convenient way for ticketmaster to seem like the give a shit about who gets tickets.