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Re:A scalper who used bots to buy millions of tickets, now w... by ikeboy on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @02:17PM (#13646256)
>require showing an ID with a name that matches the name on the ticket

Then scalpers would just pre-sell tickets and buy it in the given name. There's an arms race and it's not easy to fight the market.

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Re:A scalper who used bots to buy millions of tickets, now w... by knodi123 on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @12:52PM (#13653864)
No, you show ID to buy the tickets too. This isn't brain surgery, folks- plenty of venues already do this. It's not perfect, but it's good enough to make scalping not worth the effort.
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