There’s been a lot of promise against ticket scalping in recent years but the fight against it has been promised with the EU parliament voting in favour of brand new legislation which will ban the use of bots in ticket purchasing.
This is the EU’s first ever action again scalping which has seen a lot of musicians in the industry comment on including Metallica who added a second S&M 20th Anniversary Show to combat scalpers and bots.
Sharon Hodgson MP – Member of Parliament for Washington and Sunderland West and Chair of the APPG on Ticket Abuse – adds: “It is welcome that the EU Parliament have today voted to ban bots, which harvest tickets from the primary market in order to sell for high profits on the secondary market. This new regulation harmonises Europe with existing UK law on bots, and also allows member states to strengthen existing legislation, which will protect consumers. Fans across the world must not be priced out by the secondary ticket market using parasitical methods to get tickets.”
For more information on the new legislation, and to see the work that non-profit organisation Face-value European Alliance for Ticketing (FEAT) are doing, click on the following link.
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