President Obama Signs Anti-Scalping Legislation Banning Ticket Bots
After clearing Congressional hurdles, President Obama signed the Better Online Ticket Sales Act—or the BOTS Act for short—into law, Billboard reports. The new legislation was created to allow fans a greater opportunity to purchase tickets at face value when they first go online. According to a statement from the White House Press Secretary, the act “prohibits the circumvention of control measures used by Internet ticket sellers to ensure equitable consumer access to tickets for certain events.” Ticket bot software allows scalpers to buy up large quantities of event tickets quickly before average consumers can purchase them. Scalpers can then jack up the prices as resellers in…