Ticket bot” software snaps up large numbers of the most-desirable seats, making them unavailable to fans.

Man behind original ticket bot reveals how he scammed fans like you for millions during a U2 tour and others.

The Australian state of New South Wales will ban these ticket bots as part of laws passed on Wednesday, which makes it the first jurisdiction in the country to do so.

If you've ever had a hard time getting tickets to a popular concert, show or play, you may have fallen victim to a "ticket bot". The software is designed to snatch up tickets quickly, and they're ...

While the artist and venue may set the price for a concert seat ticket, guess what happens when bots, software and scalpers get involved?

The bots themselves are becoming easier to deploy, and there is a surge in simpler, more accessible bots, often driven by AI-based tools. These are not the domain of sophisticated hackers alone.

Those bots are a huge part of the reason you can’t get good seats to big, popular shows without dumping huge amounts of money on the secondary ticket market.

Legislation, which just passed the House, targets computerized ticket bots. The technology allows scalpers to buy thousands of seats and re-sell them for much higher prices.

Ticket bots are already illegal in more than a dozen states, but in New York, violators could end up paying with their freedom ...

Ticketmaster knows scalper-bots buy up 60 percent of its seats There’s a reason why you can never seem to get great tickets to major Ticketmaster events.