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Scalpers Work With Hackers to Liberate Ticketmaster's ‘Non-Transferable’ Tickets (www.404media.co)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A lawsuit filed in California by concert giant AXS has revealed a legal and technological battle between ticket scalpers and platforms like Ticketmaster and AXS, in which scalpers have figured out how to extract “untransferable” tickets from their accounts by generating entry barcodes on parallel infrastructure that the scalpers control and which can then be sold and transferred to customers.

By reverse-engineering how Ticketmaster and AXS actually make their electronic tickets, scalpers have essentially figured out how to regenerate specific, genuine tickets that they have legally purchased from scratch onto infrastructure that they control. In doing so, they are removing the anti-scalping restrictions put on the tickets by Ticketmaster and AXS.

So Ticketmaster and AXS are suing to maintain their monopoly on scalping?

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Eh....

Bank of America, Comcast, Wells Fargo, Amazon, Google...

Just to name a few.

Ticketmaster is in the top 25 for sure.

I miss old-school Consumerist and their annual Worst Company in America brackets.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 5 months ago

Most of those have more indirect disgust. They still have some redeeming qualities for their users.

Ticketmaster is almost universally understood to be nothing other than a petty middle man extracting fees for no reason other than they can.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

I used to work for Comcast and one time after they had won the "Worst Company in the World" contest two years in a row they sent out a company-wide email telling them to participate in the contest and vote for some other company. Everyone I knew there participated in the contest but we didn't follow the instructions exactly lol.