New York can jail ticket scalpers who use bots under new law

New York State is trying to do something about how difficult — and expensive — it can be to buy tickets to concerts, plays, and sporting events online. Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill today that criminalizes the use of "ticket bots," which allow resellers to quickly purchase tickets before legitimate customers can get to them.
The use of ticket bots had already been subject to fines in New York, but those fines clearly weren’t cutting into resellers’ pr