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Phil Williams: 05/12/2016

05/12/2016

BBC Radio 5 Live - Phil Williams, 05/12/2016

New York bans programmes touts use to harvest tickets. Should the UK follow suit?

New York City has banned programmes used by touts to harvest vast numbers of tickets for live events. Should the UK follow suit?

We take a close look at the problem of ticket touting - and how programmes called "bots" are used to automatically harvest large numbers of tickets for resale on the secondary market - often at vastly-inflated prices. It is completely legal, but we speak to an MP and music fans trying to get bots     banned, and a performer trying to outwit the touts.

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