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Senator Calls On FTC To Finally Do Something About Ticketing Bots
Connecticut senator Richard Blumenthal sent FTC chair Lina Khan a letter urging to more enforce legislation that prohibited ticket bots.
Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal sent a letter to Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan on Friday, requesting that the consumer protection agency more consistently enforce the nearly decade-old legislation that was passed to try and stop scalpers from using bots to corner the market on concert tickets. “This lack of deterrence from the underenforcement of the BOTS Act has fostered a sense of impunity, inviting more scalpers with more sophisticated schemes, driving up prices for consumers, and creating a minefield of scams,” Blumenthal wrote in his letter Friday. Live Nation Entertainment president and CFO Joe Berchtold told a Senate Judiciary panel last year that a bot attack was the main cause of the infamously disastrous rollout for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour tickets back in 2022.
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