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

submitted 4 months ago by Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[-] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 144 points 4 months ago

Jesus, is there any way both sides can lose? Because fuck ticket scalpers, but fuck Ticketmaster too.

[-] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 68 points 4 months ago

I mean Ticketmaster basically are scalpers

[-] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 43 points 4 months ago

Ticketmaster is worse than scalpers.

[-] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago

They are scalpers

[-] vox@sopuli.xyz 26 points 4 months ago

I'd rather deal with scalpers than this monopolistic bullshit

[-] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

You'd rather have 2 middle men for your ticket purchase?

[-] LordCrom@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago

I'd rather be able to sell my ticket if I can't go for at least face value. Ticketmaster sometime won't let you sell the ticket to another person, or only allows you to sell back to them at 1/10th the face value....just so they can resell it again. Didnt even mention all the convenience fees for all those trades too.

If I had a paper ticket, I could just sell it no problem

[-] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

Going through a scalper means that the ticket supply is artificially decreased, which pumps up the price. Then you run the risk of your ticket not working when you turn up to the venue.

[-] Halosheep@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago

Not too different from ticketmaster at that point lol

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Scalping increases the liquidity of tickets. This establishes a "market price" that can be higher or lower than the face value.

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