U.S. lawmakers are giving fans a spark of hope they could buy event tickets at more affordable prices. Several senators told CBS News they would support federal legislation that limits the profit ...

Ever tried to see your favorite band or show but find you can’t because the prices are insane? In part, it’s because some creeps with computers stole all the best seats and are selling them back to ...

As someone who often tries (and fails) to buy tickets to various shows and hosts ticketed events myself, I know how broken America’s ticket industry is. If you’ve ever tried to buy a ticket to see ...

Scalper bot software is able to perform multiple tasks, including creating multiple fake accounts for a targeted website, navigating captchas, purchasing tickets and more. Springsteen and Ticketmaster ...

Sean Allen, a spokesman for the Palace Theatre, said third-party websites that masquerade as legitimate brokers often dupe customers to purchase tickets from them. That has contributed to customers ...

Purchasing tickets for live events is becoming an increasingly stressful task, and a lot of this has to do with the existence of ticket bots. Ticket bots allow scalpers to purchase blocks of concert ...

Bots -- automated programs that can perform tasks online exponentially faster than us poor meatbags -- have been a plague on the concert ticket-buying public for decades now. A single bot can buy a ...

LANSING — Michigan is poised to become the next state to ban online ticket scalping bots after lawmakers Thursday approved a two–bill package now on its way to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s desk for likely ...