B.C. government preps legislation on ticket scalpers and bots

VICTORIA – B.C. will introduce legislation this fall to crack down on scalpers and bots that snatch up tickets to live events and gouge customers by reselling them for exorbitant prices, says the province’s solicitor general.
Mike Farnworth said Tuesday the goal of the law “will deal with the issue of the ability of British Columbians to access tickets and what they see as the unfair way that scalpers get the tickets, bots get the tickets, it seems like anybody other than an or