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”EMPOWER THE ARTISTS, NOT THE SCALPERS AND THE BOTS!,” Robert Smith says.

The bill, which was passed by the state senate, would also require the original price to be displayed on resale tickets, and ban delivery fees on electronic and print-at-home tickets.

”WE HATE SCALPING AS MUCH AS YOU DO and will continue to try to find ways to combat it,” Rage Against the Machine say.

“they’re just some gigs. they’re in our home town, so we can totally walk there. they’re no more special than any other gigs. nothing unusual will be happening, other than what always happens at our gigs, which is us playing a bunch of songs as well as we can. we’re going to be playing a LOT in the near future, so they’re certainly not worth getting on a plane for, in our opinion.” – James Murphy

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.”

“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.

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