Scalpers are in the news a lot lately, what with all the controversies involving Ticketmaster, Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen, Beyonce, Eurovision, and the Foo Fighters. Usually such chatter dies down after a few
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Sure, it’s possible to get a bot or an AI program to ape writing a song, but until scientists can figure out how to get robots to experience genuine emotion, they’re gonna suck
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On this day in 1990. Tim Berners-Lee published a proposal for something he called the “world wide web.” Twenty-nine years later, I’m able to bring you music news for November 12, 2019. There’s
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It’s become fashionable for governments to take a stand against ticket-buy-bots, secondary sellers, and scalpers. British Columbia is the latest jurisdiction to take on the fight. After consulting with the public, the government
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We’re all sick of Ticketmaster’s verification images, the little boxes that need to be clicked as part of the process to verify you’re a human being instead of a ticket bot. (The usefulness
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Concert ticket-buying bots are evil things. With their ability to hammer Ticketmaster’s systems thousands of times a second, there’s no way us poor meatbags can compete. They need to be exterminated. Ticketmaster hates bots
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Are you frustrated by the concert ticket buying experience? You’re not alone. Let’s see if we can sort through it all for you this week. This week’s podcasts introduces ticket “concierge service” Robin
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Ajit Pai received a gun from the NRA last week in appreciation for his efforts to overturn Obama-era net neutrality regulations. And the FCC received half a million letters from Russian IP addresses
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The latest round of concert ticket outrage came when Elton John’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour went on sale to the general public. Many markets, including Toronto, saw two shows sell out within
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[This is the first of a series of articles I’m writing for Global News. The goal is to explain all the complexities and unknown aspects of buying concert tickets. -AC] It’s almost go
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I’ve had some conversations with Alan Geland, the founder of Fair Ticket Solutions, a company based out of Vancouver that’s looking to bring the sale of concert tickets (and tickets for theatre productions
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