Ticketmaster

Ticketmaster getting rid of CAPTCHA!

The world’s largest online ticket retailer is to stop requiring users to enter hard-to-read words in order to prove they are human. Captcha – which asks users to type in words to prove they are not robots trying to cheat the system – is used on many sites…

Jonathan Coulton & John Roderick released a Christmas LP, touring together (dates & streams)

Jonathan Coulton and past collaborator/tourmate John Roderick (of The Long Winters) released a Christmas album, One Christmas At A Time, together with ten original Christmas songs by the two musicians (“actually one of them is a Chanukah song, so OK, nine…

NJ politician trying to pass the anti-scalper BOSS ACT again

“The new version of his bill targets two areas of the secondary ticket market. First, it makes it a crime to use computer programs that circumvent online security procedures to allow brokers to snap up the best seats before ordinary fans have a chance…

How did scalpers manage to get so many Fiona Apple tickets?

I’m as alarmed as you are that there are currently over 150 alleged Fiona Apple tickets on Stubhub already (over 25% of what was sold today in the presale)…

Bruce Springsteen & fans vs. Ticketmaster (again)

“This couldn’t have happened to a more high-profile artist, at a worse time, or in a worse place. And now, New Jersey Congressman Bill Pascrell is promising action and the reintroduction of the BOSS Act, which calls for secondary market oversight and restrictions on companies like Ticketmaster…

Antitrust Institute president says paperless tickets take away our right to scalp

In the Opinion Pages of the NY Times today, Albert A. Foer, “a lawyer formerly with the Federal Trade Commission is president of the American Antitrust Institute,” writes that:AT this moment, all over the United States, consumers are buying tickets to games, concerts and other live events under the impression that they have the right to give away, donate or resell the tickets they purchase…

Antitrust Institute president says paperless tickets take away our right to scalp

In the Opinion Pages of the NY Times today, Albert A. Foer, “a lawyer formerly with the Federal Trade Commission is president of the American Antitrust Institute,” writes that:AT this moment, all over the United States, consumers are buying tickets to games, concerts and other live events under the impression that they have the right to give away, donate or resell the tickets they purchase…

Bjork playing 4 nights at Roseland? (update: confirmed)

We already knew that Bjork had plans for multiple ‘Biophilia’ shows in NYC, “tentatively in early 2012”, but as of yesterday there was still no news on exactly where or when…

Radiohead tonight (in line yet?). If you don't have a ticket, you might be mad at Ticketmaster...

“Just passed by the Radiohead line at Roseland & there is definitely a woman in that line with ACTUAL MENTAL ILLNESS. Weird scene.” – Ahmad Bilal Radiohead plays their first of two shows at Roseland Ballroom tonight (9/28) with Four Tet and friends…

now Walmart will sell tickets too

Walmart announced yesterday that it has teamed up with Ticketmaster to sell event tickets in 45 of its stores. The touch screen kiosks will be available at 26 New Jersey stores, 18 New York stores and one store in Pennsylvania…
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