You know what could solve ticket scalping? Ban ticket resales. That's always been an option. Venues don't do this because their only concern is selling out their seats.
this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2026
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The better to opress you with, my dear....biometric tracking everywhere for everything. We let them put microphones, cameras and location tracking, facial recognition in everything and everywhere, we might end up having to use LLMs as the interface to everything capturing voice, speech patterns, thought patterns....why the fuck not eyes, dna, fingerprints (wait, we already did that one)...
I don't trust a single thing that the world's most successful snake oil salesman of all time says.
I'm not sure I'd give him the #1 position. Definitely up there, but not quite at the top. Or maybe several megagrifters should share the throne.
Battle Royale of the megagrifters for the throne? Would surely sell some tickets, too. :3
tell them to hide in the metaverse
It is just a private company doing the verification solely, orb is just a gimmick to look like actual thing.
Scam Altman: "Oh no - the bots are 2 good. Gaze into my black hole pls"
Scam Altman: Literally gave birth to the bot technology.
I’m never going to a concert again
I'm going to support local anti-authoritarian punk and hip hop until they do away with this.
Support them after as well!
I don't think even Sam Altman thinks this. He's saying it, sure. He's a liar.
Are the orbs gonna shoot a laser beam that disintegrates the CEO of Ticketmaster?
Fuck off Sam
How about you just restrict ticket sales to 1-2 per person and require it to be tied to a name on sale which is verified on use and cannot be easily changed? That's all you need to do.
No, I don't want random companies to have my legal name, I reserve the right to be anonymous both online and offline
Scalping Sam Altman would surely sell some tickets.
Weird how so many techbro ideas boil down to registering your identification with the tech oligarchs...
happening at the same time as age verification many tech, and websites.
I can't think of anyone I would rather give unalterable biometric information to than a group of egomaniacal sadists who have shown utter disregard for the privacy of everyone as well as the legal code.
(1) Offer a solution which exacerbates bot-traffic on the internet, (2) legitimize the need for verification of users as a result, (3) offer the most privacy-invasive "solution" to the "problem" imaginable: problem(1)-reaction(2)-solution(3)... every parasite's favorite paradigm :)
How does this achieve anything that requiring proof of purchase doesn't?
It achieves invading customer privacy.
Oh, and selling a lot of their scanner-ball hardware things. Because now anybody who ever buys tickets to any concert or any other live event will now also need to buy one of those little fuckers.
Because you can hand someone else proof of purchase. The only way to truly prevent scalping is by verifying the purchaser's identity, to ensure they cannot transfer it to anyone else. At least not without selling it through the distributor's own channels where they will then collect a fee for the privilege of providing the proprietary platform to facilitate such transactions.
I'll take the scalping, thanks.
You can't solve scalping when its a core function of LiveNation's ecosystem. Scalping is the business model.
What a relief. As long as we are all tracked at all times by both government and corporations, we can finally be free of the burden of ticket scalping. It's a small price to pay for this great reward. I think we can turn our attention toward solving other oppressive plagues like Jay walking and double parking now.
They thought wrong.
This dumbass idea assumes a single person and NOT a group of people are responsible for scalping tickets, when in actuality this will just drive up scalping prices.
You fucking morons.
Do you have to put your eye on it? Because hello pink eye everyone!
Please insert identity verification probe