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April 26, 2007
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Ticketmaster Files Series Of Lawsuits Against Resellers

Ticketmaster has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in L.A. that accuses four Massachusetts residents of “illegally buying more than 45,000 tickets on Ticketmaster.com since early 2003 and then reselling them at a profit,” according to Bruce Mohl of the BOSTON GLOBE. Similar suits have been filed against resellers in Illinois and Texas, as well as officials with Ohio-based RMG Technologies. The lawsuits claim that since ’03, “resellers in the three states bought nearly 120,000 tickets through Ticketmaster and then resold them.” The RMG lawsuit alleges the company “orchestrated the ticket purchases using automated devices that allowed users to sidestep Ticketmaster security measures and ticket purchase limits.” The suit also claims that RMG “screens all of its customers carefully to make sure they won’t alert Ticketmaster.” Mohl notes Ticketmaster “has security measures in place to block automated attacks on its ticketing system, but it acknowledges in the lawsuits that the measures don’t always work” (BOSTON GLOBE, 4/26).

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