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Senate Subcommittee To Hold Hearing On Measure To Ban Ticket Bots

Ticket bots – automated software programs used to speed through online ticket purchase processes faster than human customers – will be the subject of a hearing on Capitol Hill today. The Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, Insurance & Data Security will hold a hearing at 2:30pm ET on the Better Online Ticket Sales (BOTS) Act of '16, a proposed federal measure to outlaw the use of bots and the resale of tickets obtained through the use of bots. The hearing is scheduled to include testimony from Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby, “Hamilton” producer Jeffrey Seller, StubHub General Counsel Tod Cohen and Jeremy Liegl, Associate General Counsel for Pandora and Ticketfly.
 
The use of bots, already illegal in several state and local jurisdictions, remains prevalent in many sectors of the live entertainment industry, and was the subject of a study released early this year by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, finding that "ticketing, to put it bluntly, is a fixed game."

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