Three US ticket resellers fined in first order under Obama’s anti-scalping act

Three New York-based ticket resellers have been fined $3.7million (£2.7m) in the first order under former US president Barack Obama‘s anti-scalping bill. Obama’s bill was passed in 2016, but had yet to bring a case to court. Three companies, Just in Time Tickets, Inc., Cartisim Corp. and Concert Specials, Inc., were alleged to have used …

Ticketmaster repurposes anti-scalping tech to track social distancing at events

COVID-19 has been the bane of 2020, but an interesting effect of the global pandemic has been how it’s forced a reevaluation of how we can put existing technology to use. Case in point is Ticketmaster, who is looking to repurpose its suite of technologies that were originally meant to fight scalping, into tools to …