Ticketmaster Takes Legal Action Against Ticket-Buying Bots
How many times have you signed on to Ticketmaster’s website the MOMENT tickets for a big show go on sale only to find out that the gig is sold out within seconds? WTF, man?
A big part of the problem are bots that scam the system. These automated ticket buying programs can buy as many as 200,000 tickets a day before a show goes on sale. No wonder the general public gets screwed.
Ticketmaster–as monolithic and mysterious as it may be–is quite concerned about this robotic scamming. Its terms of service bans bots and limits the number of tickets anyone (or anything) can request on a given day. And now they’ve taken action.
According to the New York Times, Ticketmaster has taken legal action against 21 people–super-scalpers–accusing them of fraud and breach of copyright. Hey, it’s a start.
