As we wrote in
February, NY AG Eric Schneiderman has made New York's
ticketing industry a prime target, beginning with a blistering
report on ticketing practices in January. The NY AG also
announced
settlements with six ticket brokers on April 26, 2016, worth
approximately $2.8 million.
The latest salvo came on April 28, 2016, when the NY AG
announced that he would propose legislation to toughen New
York's anti-ticket bot law. A "bot" is a
computer program designed to perform a particular task, often many
times in quick succession, without additional input from a
user. (Many websites that require a user, for
example, to input numbers or letters from a picture, are meant
to stop bots from being used to access the site.) New York
already prohibits the use of "automated ticket purchasing
software" to purchase tickets, and imposes civil monetary
penalties on the use of such software when used "in order to
bypass security measures to purchase tickets." N.Y.
