Connecticut senator Richard Blumenthal sent FTC chair Lina Khan a letter urging to more enforce legislation that prohibited ticket bots.
Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal sent a letter to Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan on Friday, requesting that the consumer protection agency more consistently enforce the nearly decade-old legislation that was passed to try and stop scalpers from using bots to corner the market on concert tickets.
The Better Online Tickets Sales Act was signed into law at the end of 2016, making it illegal to use bots to circumvent security measures and lines to purchase mass amounts of concert tickets before actual fans could get their hands on them.
It’s hard to gauge just how often brokers and scalpers use bots to get their tickets given how murky they operate their businesses. Bots are one of several strategies brokers use to get a leg up.last year that a bot attack was the main cause of the infamously disastrous rollout for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour tickets back in 2022.
It’s unclear how much of a difference Blumenthal’s request will make at the moment given that Donald Trump will presumably find a new chairperson to replace Khan once he takes office in January. Along with the enforcement request, he also asked for the FTC provide a briefing on the commission’s prior enforcement efforts as well as recommendations on how to improve the ticket marketplace.predatory ticketing schemes,” Blumenthal wrote.
“Senator Blumenthal’s letter to the FTC is a much-needed step in holding predatory ticket brokers and resale platforms accountable,” Stephen Parker‘s executive director, said in a statement. “We hope today’s action causes the FTC to finally enforce the BOTS Act after years of inaction and sparks a wave of action from state legislators to enforce stronger ticketing protections for consumers nationwide.
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