StubHub Responds to Ontario’s New Ticket Resale Law
After months of back-and-forth between Canadian lawmakers and ticket industry leaders, The Candian Press announced today that Ontario passed the Ticket Sales Act. The new law makes it illegal to…
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Arizona Lawmaker Aims to Outlaw Ticket Bots
Arizona State Senator John Kavanagh, R-Fountain Hills, has proposed a law that would make it illegal to use computer software to impersonate a human for “nefarious reasons”, including buying up concert and…
Cyber Bots Target Holiday Toys
“Bots”, the high-speed technology usually employed to purchase mass amounts of tickets for the purpose of inflated resale, are now being used to buy up the most popular toys as…
Japanese Lawmakers Ponder Restrictive Resale Regulations Ahead of Olympics
Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers are putting together a bill that could severely restrict the online resale market for tickets, with an eye on the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics, according…
German Police Raid Local Authority Following Rolling Stones Tickets Scandal
Last week, it was reported that German authorities were being investigated for accepting 100 free tickets to a Rolling Stones concert at Hamburg’s Stadtpark – the first event of its…
Fake Ticket Vendor Defrauds 80 Fans at Ed Sheeran Show
British-born but world-renowned pop star Ed Sheeran performed for thousands of fans in Mumbai Sunday night at Bandra- Kurla Complex. Some fans, however, were not so lucky. Mumbai Mirror reports that…
Student Lawyer Avoids Jail Time for Selling Fake Tickets
Zainab Pervaiz, a 25 year-old student immigration lawyer and cricket player from Walsall, England, went to great lengths to con victims out of thousands of pounds in a scam that…
New Laws Crack Down on Ticket Resale in Victoria, Australia
The Labor Government and Daniel Andrews MP announced today several new rules on ticket resale in Victoria, Australia. The Major Events Legislation Amendment (ticket scalping and other matters) Bill 2017 makes…
Paradise Papers Broker Lavallee a part of StubHub’s Sellers Council
Julien Lavallee, the central figure in the recent investigation that led to raids on the offices of StubHub and other ticket resale offices in the United Kingdom, is a member…
StubHub, Other Resale Offices in UK Raided by Authorities
StubHub’s London offices were raided by investigators from the United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority over the summer as part of an investigation into the secondary giants’ partnerships. GetMeIn and…