Anti-Scalping Senate Bill 1602

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Posted in industry | music on July 18, 2006

Anti-Scalping Senate Bill 1602

"....Battin didn't anticipate his anti-scalping bill would become the focus of a vitriolic tug-of-war with venues, ticketing agencies, brokers and online auction sites all clamoring to maintain their share of the nation's $3.1 billion concert ticket industry, not to mention sporting events and theater performances.

Backed by Ticketmaster, the world's largest ticketing company, Senate Bill 1602 makes 'pinging' punishable by up to a fine of $5,000 and six months in jail for the first violation, $10,000 for the second....." [Sacbee]

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Posted on July 18, 2006 10:05 AM

Comments (6)

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Posted by cranky | July 18, 2006 10:22 AM

Great article. Thanks. Question for all of you, do you really believe this "pinging" is the huge problem ticketmaster wants us to believe it is?

Posted by Max | July 18, 2006 11:06 AM

anyone else find TM's backing of this slightly ironic, as in the past year or so, they've gotten into the game of essentially scalping their own tickets with their "premium auctions" of seats that they never bothered to release to the general public?

Posted by marty | July 18, 2006 11:06 AM

Exactly! The big shows sell out in 7 minutes. This pinging is a myth, especially with the CAPTCHA. Ticketmaster sees that with the market place for premium tickets being what it is they aren't getting a big enough piece of the pie. IF people are willing to pay $1000 for Madonna tickets, why shouldn't they be able to do it at ticketmaster with their AMEX gold card (nice corporate sponsor tie in). As with anything let's not count on the federal govt to solve a rather complicated situation.

Posted by Max | July 18, 2006 11:25 AM

what's funny is there will always be dudes trying to make a dollar outside gigs. they won't know the consequences and the wheel will turn

Posted by Anonymous | July 18, 2006 11:47 AM

Ticketmaster is a monopoly and needs to be dealt with.

Posted by Anonymous | July 18, 2006 12:30 PM