The most infamous scalper of all time

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Euler
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Found this while on my regular reading binge this morning and thought it was interesting: -

The most infamous ticket scalper of all time used bots to buy millions of tickets. Now he wants to stop them.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/arti ... cketmaster
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ArticalBadboy
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Use a thief to catch a thief
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ShaunWhite
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I always thought it was this fella....
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Euler
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An amendment to the Digital Economy Bill means it will be illegal to use "bots" to bypass limits on the maximum number of tickets that can be bought.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39239133
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to75ne
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what is to stop them physically moving their machines that run the bots and their companies offshore out of uk jurisdiction and then carry on as before?
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kerberus
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Euler - please send this to betfair
*The company realized connection bandwidth and latency were the most important factors in getting tickets quickly. Wiseguy leased dozens of servers "
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