British Columbia Solicitor General Mike Farnworth says he fondly recalls the day he waited in line at his local shopping mall for a dozen concert tickets to see Irish rock superstars U2 perform in Vancouver.
That was the late 1980s, and since then ticket buying has become much more complex, expensive and unfair, Farnworth said.
The Ticket Sales Act intends to prohibit mass-buying software, or so-called bots, that are able to purchase large amounts of tickets for live events, then resell them at inflated prices, he said. The proposed changes will also regulate how tickets to live cultural, recreational and sporting events are bought and sold in B.C., said Farnworth.
The law would require clear disclosure of ticket prices, refund guarantees by secondary sellers and declarations by those sellers that they are not the original ticket provider, he said. "It's not going to be about getting the individual in the Cayman Islands or in Russia," Farnworth said. "It's about ticket sellers."
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