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Scalpers Work With Hackers to Liberate Ticketmaster's ‘Non-Transferable’ Tickets (www.404media.co)
submitted 1 year 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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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This is one of those fights where you just hope everyone involved loses. Beyond losing, I’d prefer they all fall into a bottomless pit, but I’m not sure that’s attainable.

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean Ticketmaster basically are scalpers

[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Ticketmaster is worse than scalpers.