From sold out to shut out, fans are finding it harder and harder to score seats to the big event without shelling out big bucks to a scalper. The culprit: ticket bots. Ticket bots are computer ...

While investigating the skyrocketing costs of concert tickets, Vice news talked to one of the most successful ticket scalpers in history to find out what is at the root of such an enduring issue, and ...

Oasis, the band everyone likes to sing after too many pints at karaoke, is going on tour. Well, not exactly on tour—it’s more like 17 dates in the UK and Ireland in summer 2025. Still, considering the ...

FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson warns of online radicalization, vows to protect kids in the A.I. race and crack down on ticket bots to lower costs for families on ‘Varney & Co.’ ...

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 ...

Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal sent a letter to Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan on Friday, requesting that the consumer protection agency more consistently enforce the nearly ...

The BOTS Act allows civil penalties for those who deploy software to breach ticketing safeguards. Enforcement has been ...

When armies of Taylor Swift fans in November were locked out of being able to purchase tickets for her upcoming The Eras tour, the so-called "Swifties" demanded answers. And the Senate agreed. This ...

Ticketmaster's CEO made waves with a recent comment that event tickets are underpriced. Economics 101 backs him up. So why do ticket prices seem so out of control?

In a high-tech move that we can all get behind and isn’t dystopian at all, the City of Barcelona is feeding camera data from its city buses into an advanced AI, but they swear they’re not using the ...

U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn and Richard Blumenthal say the BOTS Act was signed into law in 2016, but has been rarely used. By Caitlin Huston Business Writer Members of Congress are now turning ...

Live Nation Entertainment Chief Financial Officer Joe Berchtold told a Senate committee on Tuesday that Ticketmaster learned "valuable lessons" from its meltdown during the Taylor Swift concert ticket ...