New York will criminalize the use of ticket-scalping bots

Earlier this month, Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote an impassioned plea to the New York state assembly, asking them to pass a bill that would criminalize the use of ticket-scalping bots. These bots — which bypass the security of primary ticket sale sites to snatch up sometimes hundreds of tickets at once and resell them at a virtually cap-less premium — were already illegal, but using them garnered only civil penalties that often didn't cut very deeply into profits.
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