A lawsuit filed in California by concert giant AXS has revealed a legal and technological battle between ticket scalpers and platforms like Ticketmaster and AXS, in which scalpers have figured out how to extract “untransferable” tickets from their accounts by generating entry barcodes on parallel infrastructure that the scalpers control and which can then be sold and transferred to customers.
By reverse-engineering how Ticketmaster and AXS actually make their electronic tickets, scalpers have essentially figured out how to regenerate specific, genuine tickets that they have legally purchased from scratch onto infrastructure that they control. In doing so, they are removing the anti-scalping restrictions put on the tickets by Ticketmaster and AXS.
So Ticketmaster and AXS are suing to maintain their monopoly on scalping?
generating entry barcodes on parallel infrastructure
I guess that reverse engineering itself isn’t illegal, but creating tickets without the real ticket seller’s authorization seems plain fraud IMHO.
You bought the ticket. Selling it isn’t fraud.
You’re not creating tickets that weren’t purchased. You’re just transferring them without their permission.
So if I sell my “Dr.” title to you, then that is OK in your jurisdiction?
Well, around here, it is different.
