ticket bots

President Obama signs anti-scalping BOTS Act into law

The Better Online Ticket Sales Act, whose acronym is cleverly BOTS, and will “prohibit the circumvention of control measures used by Internet ticket sellers to ensure equitable consumer access to tickets for certain events.”

New York Governor signs law making "ticket bot" usage illegal

“These unscrupulous speculators and their underhanded tactics have manipulated the marketplace and often leave New Yorkers and visitors alike with little choice but to buy tickets on the secondary market at an exorbitant mark-up,” Governor Cuomo said.

NY State set to make using ticket bots a misdemeanor

This will probably not make it any easier to get ‘Hamilton’ tickets, though.