Let's start of with the fact that when you buy a ticket from one of the monopolistic ticket corporations, you get the shittiest choice of ticket to begin with. Most of the tickets are distributed to other sources (see previous article below) including the actual artist performing possibly reselling them themselves at a above market value.
Restrictive paperless ticketing then in turn requires you to show at the venue to pick up your tickets-including the people you may have bought tickets for as well-because they can't pick them up themselves. Then if you can't make the show or decide not to go, whatever the reason, you can't do NOTHING with them. You can't resell, you can't give away, you can't donate etc.
Paperless ticketing is basically an attempt by the "music industry" to control the secondary market of ticket sales, because it is obviously not enough to control the initial market of ticket sales to begin with, and prohibit the public from owning what the actually buy.
New Jersey is proposing a bill to prohibit restrictive paperless ticketing and also touch on some of the subject regarding initial sales as well:
From the article:
"Lesniak’s bill would also ban the use
of bot software, require venues and promoters to disclose any fees
associated with a ticket price and require them to advertise the number
of tickets available to the public in each tier of a show.
Under the law, venues or promoters that hold back tickets for direct sale on the secondary market would presumably get dinged with a violation of the state’s Consumer Fraud Act, which can include minimum fines of $10,000."
Under the law, venues or promoters that hold back tickets for direct sale on the secondary market would presumably get dinged with a violation of the state’s Consumer Fraud Act, which can include minimum fines of $10,000."
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