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The American Congress banned bots-speculators

Do you want to go to a class concert or theater? There is nothing easier: we choose the event that we like, we prepare in advance for the event, take the day off, do not plan anything, we go and rejoice on the appointed day. Tickets can always be bought at the box office of a concert hall or theater. What if they do not exist? We go to the site of the concert agency and in advance buy the ticket online, of course! Wait, wait ... Are all the tickets sold out ?! Or the event turned out to be so significant, or this bot-speculator bought up the entire circulation and now trades them at an inflated price. The second option is much more likely.


American online ticket offices selling tickets for concerts have begun to sound the alarm quite recently. In summer, no one knew how to deal with bots-resellers, only in New York they were banned from their work. This had no effect, since one state is not the whole country. But now everything is not so bad.

The US Congress has developed a bill to prohibit the activities of such programs throughout the United States.

Representatives of companies specializing in the sale of tickets, say that the bots manage to grab tickets by the thousands, leaving no choice to ordinary customers. People simply have to pay enterprising resellers the maximum possible price.

Now the law has been handed over to the US president for signature, and the American National Association of Ticket Sellers hopes that this way it will be possible to impose a complete ban on the activity of pests.

The article is based on materials https://hi-news.ru/internet/amerikanskij-kongress-zapretil-botov-spekulyantov.html.

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