Thursday, December 01, 2016
Senate passes useful, functional bill
And if your heart did not stop cold at that revelation, you probably have no fear of a repetition because it still has to get through the House whose stooges are more more affordable for ticket bot owners.
The U.S. Senate doesn’t want you to have to fight a robot for a chance to see the hit musical “Hamilton.”This will cut deeply into the profits of the Bots owners and actually make the rest of the country like New York which recently passed its own version of the bill. Hopefully it can be delayed until Preznitent Trump can veto this abomination.
Senators have unanimously passed a bill sponsored by Republican Jerry Moran of Kansas that would prohibit automated scalping software known as “ticket bots” from buying up seats for theater shows, concerts or sports events and reselling them at inflated prices.
“Scalpers who cut in line, then buy mass quantities of tickets just to resell them at higher prices make it difficult for people to get tickets for themselves and their families,” Moran said in a statement after the vote on Wednesday night. “This bill helps level the playing field for consumers.”
Moran’s Better Online Ticket Sales Act of 2016, also known as the BOTS Act, is designed to prevent ticket bots from circumventing online ticket-purchasing rules that limit the number of seats a person can buy for sought-after entertainment events.
The bill also bars the sale of tickets over state lines that were bought through a ticket bot “if the seller participated in, had the ability to control or should have known about the violation.”
The BOTS Act now must pass the U.S. House of Representatives before being signed into law by the president.
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