Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal sent a letter to Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan on Friday, requesting that the consumer protection agency more consistently enforce the nearly decade-old legislation that was passed to try and stop scalpers from using bots to corner the market on concert tickets.
The Better Online Tickets Sales Act (Or BOTS Act) was signed into law at the end of 2016, making it illegal to use bots to circumvent security measures and lines to purchase mass amounts of concert tickets before actual fans could get their hands on them. But eight years later, the FTC has only enforced the BOTS act once, against three New York-based ticket brokers.
“This lack of deterrence from the underenforcement of the BOTS Act has fostered a sense of impunity, inviting more scalpers with more sophisticated schemes, driving up prices for consumers, and…
