Ticket touts face unlimited fines for using bots

Music industry groups hails law, part of wider effort to crack down on ‘secondary ticketing’Touts who use automated software known as “bots” to harvest multiple tickets for concerts by artists such as Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran at the expense of genuine fans will face unlimited fines from Thursday.Music industry groups hailed the new law, which comes amid a wider effort to crack down on “secondary ticketing”, where touts use websites such as StubHub and Viago