{"id":47649,"date":"2017-03-11T02:15:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T19:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/ministers-to-criminalise-use-of-ticket-tout-harvesting-software\/"},"modified":"2017-03-11T02:19:47","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T19:19:47","slug":"ministers-to-criminalise-use-of-ticket-tout-harvesting-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/ministers-to-criminalise-use-of-ticket-tout-harvesting-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministers to criminalise use of ticket tout 'harvesting' software"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nExclusive: Touts face unlimited fines in move to curb resale of tickets at huge mark-ups before fans can buy them Touts who use computer software to harvest concert tickets in bulk and resell them at vast mark-ups face unlimited fines as part of a crackdown on highly profitable resale sites such as Viagogo, StubHub and GetMeIn.The Department of Culture, Media and Sport will announce a package of measures to curb the growing power of the so-called \u201csecondary ticketing\u201d industry, which now regularly offers tickets at huge mark-ups, even before they are available to the general public. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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