Reverse Engineering Ticketmaster's Rotating Barcodes

Re:Reverse Engineering Ticketmaster's Rotating Barcodes by reddalo on Monday July 08, 2024 @03:13PM (#40908456)

Italy solved this. Five years ago, a new law enforced ID-checking when you enter any big events (like concerts with an audience larger than 5000 people).

Tickets have your name on it, and you can only change the name or resell them through the official seller (so, third party resellers are out of the game). Also, every reselling transaction is registered and can be inspected by the Italian Rightsholder Agency (SIAE).

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Re:Reverse Engineering Ticketmaster's Rotating Barcodes by rangestransform on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @09:34AM (#40915954)

I’d rather not solve it than let the state have more information about my transactions

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Re:Reverse Engineering Ticketmaster's Rotating Barcodes by cyberbolt23 on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @04:22PM (#40920673)

Because this, and more very strange rules it is very hard for ticketing systems to get into the Italian market. Some examples:

- not allowed to change to time or name of the event after the 1st ticket is sold

- only allowed section names in halls from a know list

- free tickets on events... can only do this under strange conditions

- smart card application, for encryption, must run on a physical server in Italy. You should not be able to log into the ticketing box office if that smart card application is not running.

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Re:Reverse Engineering Ticketmaster's Rotating Barcodes by reddalo on Thursday July 11, 2024 @03:34AM (#40934448)

You know many details about Italian ticketing systems, are you working in the industry?

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