Live Nation/Ticketmaster Go To Court, AI Keeps Scalping

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Podcast

Sources:

• A brief history of scalping concert tickets
• Frustrated Taylor Swift fans battle ticket bots and Ticketmaster
• AI Ticket Reselling: How Machine Learning Transforms the Secondary Market in 2026
• Three Sentenced For “Wiseguys” Scheme To Purchase 1.5 Million Premium Tickets To Events Through Computer Hacking And Fraud
• StubHub
• Viagogo Buys Ticket Resale Service StubHub From eBay for $4.05 Billion 
• From Taylor Swift Tickets to Black Friday Sales: How Scalper Bots are Winning the Online Shopping Wars
• ELI5: How are companies like TicketMaster and others able to use 'bots' to immediately buy tickets to a concert when things like CAPTCHA and "I'm not a robot" checks exist?
• An Empirical Study & Evaluation of Modern CAPTCHAs
• Evolution of Scalper Bots Part 2: The Birth of Scalper Bots
• Charles Dickens Begins Second American Tour
• LIVE NATION AND TICKETMASTER SUED BY FTC OVER ALLEGED ‘ILLEGAL TICKET RESALE TACTICS’
• H.R.2713 - MAIN Event Ticketing Act
• S.281 - TICKET Act
• York State Fair CEO: Buyer beware on third-party ticket reseller sites
• FTC Brings First-Ever Cases Under the BOTS Act
• Evolution of Scalper Bots Part 1: Origins of Scalping
• Arizona governor signs 'Taylor Swift' bill, setting restrictions on buying concert tickets
• Breaking the Scalping Cycle: A Look at Ticketmaster Fiasco of Bot Defense
• When you solve captchas, your data could be collected and sold
• Vertigo Tour
• Seatgeek
• U2 FAQ's - The Facts Without The Fiction 
• Three Sentenced for “Wiseguys” Scheme to Purchase 1.5 Million Premium Tickets to Events Through Computer Hacking and Fraud
• How AI finally won its war on CAPTCHA images
• Bots, scalpers send concert tickets through the roof, but look who gets the money
• The Live Nation trial could reshape the music industry. Here's what you need to know
• Anger Over Ticketmaster's Botched Taylor Swift Sales Could Drive Change in Industry
• Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour is at the center of a massive ticket scandal 
• What Are Ticket Bots and How to Stop Them
• CAPTCHA’s Demise: Multi-Modal AI is Breaking Traditional Bot Management
• How the guy behind the 1st ever ticket bot made $2.3 million from a U2 tour
• Ticket Scalping—Profit for Some, a Problem for Others: How Platforms Can Stay Protected (2025)
• Ticketmaster, Live Nation Facing Class Action Lawsuit Over Allegedly Hidden Online Ticket Fees