Canada’s Supreme Court Declines Live Nation Bot Lawsuit Appeal
Canada’s Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from Ticketmaster and Live Nation regarding several class-action lawsuits the companies...
Ticketmaster Wish List Bill Fast-Tracked in Pennsylvania House
Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives moved three pieces of legislation quickly through committee approvals and passed on to the senate this...
Proposed Pennsylvania Law Would Ban ‘BOT’ Ticket Purchases
A newly-proposed Pennsylvania law would ban “bots” from purchasing tickets. Pennsylvania State Representative Steve Malagari (D-Montgomery) proposed “House Bill 1378,”...
Arena Audit Shows Holdbacks, Not “Bots” or Brokers to Blame for Ticket Issues
An audit performed by government officials in Hawaii concluded that promoter and venue holdbacks are generally the culprit when consumers...
Ticketmaster, Prestige Entertainment Settle “Bot” case in California
Ticketmaster and Prestige Entertainment have settled a lawsuit regarding the latter’s alleged use of automated programs to purchase numerous tickets...
Questions We’d Like to See Answered at the FTC Online Ticket Sales Workshop
On Tuesday morning, the attention of the ticket-buying world will be fixed firmly on Washington D.C., as the Federal Trade...
Wakeman: 5 thoughts heading into the FTC Ticketing Workshop
Tomorrow is the FTC’s Online Ticketing Workshop in Washington, DC and with the panels announced and the agenda set, I...
Billions of Bots, But Limited Clarity on the Actual Threat
Every day, it seems, there are fresh headlines about how bad the bot menace is in the ticketing world. “Bots...
Ticketmaster Dealt Blow in “Bot” Lawsuit With Judge’s Decision
Ticketmaster’s lawsuit against Prestige Entertainment took a hit last week when the presiding judge sided against the ticketing giant on...
Former Live Nation Chairman Cohl Throws Water on Constant “Bot” Blame
Longtime Toronto concert promoter and former Live Nation chairman Michael Cohl might be an unlikely source to find throwing water...
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