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I Just Wanted to Buy Tickets to Mitski but the Bots Wouldn’t Let Me

Buying almost anything is ridiculously easy in 2019. I can wave my phone at a contactless payment terminal to buy groceries, order my groceries online and have them delivered to me, and my therapist just told me there’s an app that’ll deliver your meds to you. You know what’s not easy to buy? Tickets. Recently,…

Ticketmaster Discloses Breach That Impacts Nearly 5 Percent of Its Customers

Ticketmaster on Wednesday disclosed a data breach reportedly caused by malware infecting a customer support system outsourced to an external company. In a statement, Ticketmaster said some of its customer data may have been accessed by an unknown intruder. Email notifications were sent to customers who purchased tickets between February and June 23, 2018, the…

America’s Shittiest Concert Ticket Company Wants to Collect Your Face Data

Concerts used to be one of the most analog activities a person could do. But those days are going the way of the paper ticket, and now the gatekeepers of live events are determined to inject some digital anxiety into your drug-fueled Phish party. Ticketmaster is jumping into the facial recognition business Ticketmaster already had…

Pandora Just Bought Ticketfly For Nearly Half a Billion Dollars

Your favorite internet radio service will soon make it easier to buy concert tickets. Pandorajust bought Ticketfly, a Ticketmaster competitor, for $450 million. Why? Because it’s a great idea. Pandora’s been scrambling to grow and diversify its offerings to music lovers for a while now. In the past year, the company’s bought created a data…

Ticketmaster now lets you transfer tickets electronically to other people. Smart! [PR Newswire]

Ticketmaster Is Dumping Awful Captchas

Captcha is the worst, and Tickmaster’s particular strain of the virus is especially, well, impossible. It’s changing that, though, to a system that will hopefully be more friendly to actual people trying to use it. Captcha is kind of necessary. It’s to keep bots out, but it also keeps out normal human beings who can’t…

Why You Shouldn’t Post Your Concert Tickets on Facebook

The scene: your girlfriend and/or boyfriend (hey, nothing wrong with polyamory) got you tickets to The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. You’ve been waiting your whole life to see those goats up close, so naturally, you want to post pictures of your beloved gift on Facebook, rubbing it in all your friends’ rodeo-less faces. Here’s…

Band Discovers the Stupidest Way To Avoid Ticketmaster Fees

Ticketmaster fees are horrible, and we’re all about bands using clever means to combat the monolith, but The String Cheese Incident is doing it wrong. https://gizmodo.com/fees-scalpers-scams-why-buying-concert-tickets-sucks-5848580 The String Cheese Incident doesn’t want fans to have to pay any ticketing fees for its summer tour, and it’s resorted to an unorthodox ploy to make sure people…

Sanity-Saving Gifts for the Stressed-Out Student

College. Ugh. Nonstop, privileged toil. Growing up is sooooo hard. Days without sleep, binge-drinking, experimenting with bodies—it’s a miracle that anyone learns anything. These gifts won’t print a diploma, but they will help your student earn one. 1. iPad The laptop’s reign as the must-have college accessory has ended. The iPad is king. It does…

Fees. Scalpers. Scams. Why Buying Concert Tickets Sucks So Hard.

On September 26th at 10:00 AM, thousands upon thousands of fans—how many we’ll never know—hit refresh on their browsers and converged upon Ticketmaster’s servers like a denial-of-service attack. They were desperate for the chance to see Radiohead play one of a pair of shows at the Roseland Ballroom—a rare club show. And just like that,…

GrouponLive: Ticketmaster Sinks Its Claws into Your Favorite Deal Service

Looking to broaden their respective reaches, Groupon and Live Nation have huddled close in some small, dark corner of the internet to spawn GrouponLive, a new “online ticketing deals marketplace.” There’s no real meat to the press release in terms of what kind of deals we can expect to see out of the pairing, but…

Blockquote: “Suing your customers is a bad idea”

Irving Azoff, CEO of Ticketmaster: “They were afraid of Napster, they were afraid of iTunes; The business resists change…Basically the record industry sat around and tried to protect an old model; Yeah, suing your customer is a bad idea.” [All Things D] The irony of a man in charge of a company who artists and…

iTunes and Ticketmaster Now BFF: Free Tracks, Early Tix

You can soon expect to pick up a free song of your choice from iTunes with every concert ticket you buy at Ticketmaster. No gimmicks, no catches. Buy a concert ticket, get any track you want, gratis. The other side of the promotion extends a program where last year, for example, pre-orders of Stadium Arcadium…