52 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek 5 Feb \ parent \ on: Reverse Engineering TicketMaster's Rotating Barcodes (SafeTix) devs
To be honest, I have become so skeptical that I don't think that is their main objective. They just want to stop reselling and corner the market. But that doesn't sound as good as preventing ticket fraud.
Yes. Growth at all costs and additionally threat of legal action to everyone else, which is essentially security theater since exploits will be found anyway, they just won't be disclosed responsibly then.
They just want to stop reselling and corner the market. But that doesn't sound as good as preventing ticket fraud.
This, 1000%. I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that Ticketmaster used ticket-fraud as justification for SafeTix even internally. It's the line they would feed to all their PMs and devs to motivate them. But behind closed doors, the suits knew exactly what they were doing.
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Oh, this is already mentioned in the article:
It’s pretty clear why TicketMaster is pushing this technology:SafeTix makes it harder for people to resell tickets outside of TicketMaster’s closed, high-margin ticket-resale marketplace, where they make a boatload of money by buying low and selling high to customers with no alternative
I really should read stuff before replying haha
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