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it's not like a ticketmaster account is 'worth' anything, so the seller can simply set up a new one for their next purchase.
This sort of ticketing thing is a trivially solvable problem. It is solved at every airport in the entire world millions of times per day. You provide the name of each concertgoer when you buy a ticket, and they show up with their ticket and ID. You often need to show your ID at these kinds of venues to prove you're old enough to drink beer anyway.
I have to believe the reason the likes of ticket master isn't fixing this is because they are selling/auctioning/reserving some percentage of tickets to scalpers or "3rd party sellers".
Requiring ID is such an obvious solution that I have to believe these convoluted approaches are only there so the secondary market can exist and so ticket master can wash their hands when prices get out of control on that market.
This sort of ticketing thing is a trivially solvable problem. It is solved at every airport in the entire world millions of times per day. You provide the name of each concertgoer when you buy a ticket, and they show up with their ticket and ID. You often need to show your ID at these kinds of venues to prove you're old enough to drink beer anyway.
> Can I work for a bad company and still be a good person?
> No.
This sort of ticketing thing is a trivially solvable problem. It is solved at every airport in the entire world millions of times per day. You provide the name of each concertgoer when you buy a ticket, and they show up with their ticket and ID. You often need to show your ID at these kinds of venues to prove you're old enough to drink beer anyway.
Isn't this vulnerable to ticket 'selling' by simply sharing the username and password of the ticketmaster account? it's not like a ticketmaster account is 'worth' anything, so the seller can simply set up a new one for their next purchase.
This sort of ticketing thing is a trivially solvable problem. It is solved at every airport in the entire world millions of times per day. You provide the name of each concertgoer when you buy a ticket, and they show up with their ticket and ID. You often need to show your ID at these kinds of venues to prove you're old enough to drink beer anyway.
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Scalpers are the problem that you have to accept. At the time of purchase, there's no way to tell the difference between a legit purchaser and a scalper or even someone who bought it and simply can't go and needs to resell.
IDs, ticket limiters, CCs, etc, etc. All methods can be circumvented by someone dedicated enough. You can only make it "not scalable" but the tickets still need to be transferable, securely.
Unless we're willing to go ID checking at the gate, there's not going to be a true solution.
I can definitely think of worse things programmers are doing aside from making it mildly difficult to see Taylor Swift .
I have personal qualms with working in certain industries because of this, but Ticketmaster ultimately provides a luxury. You don't need to see a concert, and if you have such an issue with their business practices you can do something else with your Friday night .
I've actually never had an issue with Ticketmaster. At a point a certain other ticket provider just blocked me without any explanation, and I had to go down to the box office to buy tickets. That sucked, but compare to airlines who do weird things like print off tickets without the actual seat number, Ticketmaster doesn't bother me too much.
Isn’t this a bit like irresponsible disclosure? Since this may be considered a security vulnerability. Although it’s all client side, I’m sure there’s some basis for a lawsuit here.
Everyone want Ticketmaster to die.