There is at the moment, a proposal before Congress, to ban robots that are used to purchase tickets for events, sometimes selling out an event before the first 3 people standing in line when the box office opens, can get one. These same robots are sometimes used to purchase releases from the mint. Ever wonder how something sells out before you can finish your order and the next day there are thousands for sale on TV when there was a limit of one?
So, how are they going to reliably identify bots? It's not like they self-identify unless they do so voluntarily. And there's enough money in successful anti-CAPTCHA AI that some pretty sophisticated coders are devoting their careers to writing it. You can implement a strong-enough CAPTCHA to defeat most of them, but it'll also either defeat a certain percentage of your legitimate users, or slow/complicate their experience enough that they'll ragequit and flay you publicly in every venue they can find. It ain't gonna magically disappear if you legislate against it.
From what I've gathered, the proposal as it reads now, doesn't provide what the actual penalties would be if caught, only that you will be sued by the U.S. Government and possibly your state or the state in which the violation occurs.
The music industry is pushing hard for it. I read where in recent months where scalpers were making more money off of concerts than the performers, managers, and promoters combined.
It's amazing how people want smaller government and to let the market control things. Until they don't like the result and then they want a law...
Good luck with that was my initial response. If venues want people in line to get tickets just set aside a certain number for in person purchases. This is probably just a show of good faith for some supporters and then the bill will quietly disappear.
Given a choice, I'll take a bigger government and less market control over having more flipping, but I deny the premise that flipping is even a "free market".
Of course the resale outlets have found ways to get around the "captcha" security. If the US government legislates banning robots - they will just take the sites offshore where the US government has little or no legal means to shut them down. And regarding cyber security - when or if the next war comes it will not start with a bang, it will begin with all electric grids, everything being shutdown by governments. Thus it will begin with quiet.
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