U.S. lawmakers are giving fans a spark of hope they could buy event tickets at more affordable prices. Several senators told CBS News they would support federal legislation that limits the profit ...
On the defensive for using its own bots to bypass CAPTCHA, two firms file counterclaims against the Live Nation subsidiary. By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large According to Ticketmaster, the ...
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) demanded Ticketmaster explain whether it misled Congress in 2023 about its handling of bot scalpers – days after the Federal Trade Commission sued the company for ...
Scalper bot software is able to perform multiple tasks, including creating multiple fake accounts for a targeted website, navigating captchas, purchasing tickets and more. Springsteen and Ticketmaster ...
The Federal Trade Commission filed a bombshell lawsuit against Ticketmaster on Thursday, accusing the online broker of raking in profits through exorbitant fees and turning a blind eye as bots ...
Digital Music News launched a deep-dive investigation into the secretive world of ticket flipping, pulling back the curtain on the technology-driven operations that dominate today’s secondary ...
Sept 15 (Reuters) - U.S. regulators were investigating whether Live Nation's (LYV.N), opens new tab Ticketmaster was doing enough to prevent bots from illegally reselling tickets on its platform, ...
Michigan lawmakers have passed a legislative package that would ban ticket scalping bots and fine anyone $5,000 per ticket ...
Sean Allen, a spokesman for the Palace Theatre, said third-party websites that masquerade as legitimate brokers often dupe customers to purchase tickets from them. That has contributed to customers ...
As we continue our series called Cost of Living: The Price We Pay, we're going to look at the high prices for concert tickets. The strange economics of the ticket market has given rise to reseller ...
Bots -- automated programs that can perform tasks online exponentially faster than us poor meatbags -- have been a plague on ...