A push to protect those who love attending live entertainment is making its way to the senate floor at the state capitol. The bill aims to prevent online ticket gouging the use of bots to buy mass ...

Bills to outlaw the use of computer bots to buy event tickets passed in the Michigan House of Representatives Tuesday. Ticket bots gained extra attention a few years ago when scammers used them to buy ...

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Tuesday signed a package of bills, dubbed the "Taylor Swift" bills, to crack down on ticket bots. The bill package, which includes House Bills 4262 and 4263, ...

Scalper bot software is able to perform multiple tasks, including creating multiple fake accounts for a targeted website, navigating captchas, purchasing tickets and more. Springsteen and Ticketmaster ...

Michigan bills to further prevent the use of ticket-buying bots received a House committee hearing Wednesday. Ticket bots are often used to snatch up event tickets by getting around purchase limits, ...

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 ...

LANSING — Michigan is poised to become the next state to ban online ticket scalping bots after lawmakers Thursday approved a two–bill package now on its way to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s desk for likely ...

Some Oasis fans hoping to see the band’s 2025 reunion tour have had their dreams “crushed” as Ticketmaster has begun canceling tickets the company believes were purchased via bots. According to the ...