NY ticket bot users facing criminal charges
The use of ticket-buying software is a newly criminal offence as the New York State Assembly delivers on Attorney-General Schneiderman's pledge
News By IQ | 20 June 2016
As the US House of Representatives debates whether to ban tickets bots nationwide, the state of New York has gone one further, introducing stronger civil penalties and creating a new criminal offence for the use of ticket-buying software.
Previously, the use of ticket bots in New York could result in offenders being slapped with a civil fine – such as the US$2.7 million levied on bot-using brokers by the state’s attorney-general, Eric Schneiderman, in April – but carried no criminal punishment. Under the new…
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