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Tweens Rejoice: Ticketmaster Defeats Evil Ticket-Snatching Monster

10/16/07, 10:05 am EST


Call it “Hannah Montana’s Revenge”: On the heels of a nationwide ticket scandal involving a certain Disney star and a Ticketmaster lawsuit, a U.S. district court judge has issued an injunction against Pittsburgh-based software company RMG Technologies, which created computer programs that allowed scalpers and online ticket brokers to swoop in and purchase tickets for an event in bulk before the general public could even click a mouse. The program allowed its users to jump in front of an electronic line and repeatedly buy large amounts of tickets. It somehow also got past those weird, scrawled confirmation letters Ticketmaster asks people to type in an attempt to prevent computer programs from accomplishing the exact sort of action RMG was successfully doing. The judge’s order prevents RMG from “creating, trafficking in, facilitating the use of or using computer programs or other automatic devices to circumvent” Ticketmaster’s supposed copy-protected Web site. However, a spokesperson from ticket-resale site StubHub claims that it’s the public’s demand that is driving up ticket prices and not line-cutting computer programs. Either way, the injunction could mark the beginning of real change in the ticket industry — plus it actually has concertgoers rooting for Ticketmaster, a company that has long alienated the public with outlandish fees and monopolies.


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Scott P | 10/16/2007, 10:45 am EST

I’d applaud Ticketbastard for this, but they’ll probably end up jacking up their “service fees” to 75% or so per ticket now to make up for their effort.

rip off | 10/16/2007, 10:50 am EST

record companies and ticket master need to go down. they have sucked the pennies out of kids pockets for long enough,,,,,and we keep coming back for more.

Zachra | 10/16/2007, 12:59 pm EST

Why can’t the soccer moms that forced all this (because Ticketmaster doesn’t care about who they sell to, as long as they are selling tickets) to happen focus their ire on something more important than a fad that their 12 year old girls won’t give a damn about in 6 months. Our piss poor gov’t? That ridiculous war? Anything but this.

jungleland | 10/16/2007, 2:05 pm EST

I think the soccer moms got it right this time. The people who deal with Ticketmaster and scalpers on a regular basis just accepted it as the way it is. The soccer moms saw that this is bullshit and actually complained as a single forced the new PMRC (Pissed Moms reacting correctly)

I laughed at them at 1st for being so naive, but they were right to have an issue…

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