Use of illegal ticket bots ‘widespread’ in NY
A three-year investigation by attorney-general Eric Schneiderman has revealed that bots purchase tens of thousands of tickets a year in New York state
News By | 28 January 2016
Eric Schneiderman, the attorney-general of New York, has warned that automated bots are contributing towards ticketing being a “fixed game” in the US’s fourth most populous state.
Ticket bots are illegal in New York (and the state’s senior senator, Chuck Schumer, is backing legislation to ban them nationwide) but Schneiderman found, using data supplied by ticketing companies, resellers and credit card companies, that they are still in widespread use.
A report titled Why Can’t New Yorkers Get Tickets?…
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