Governor Cuomo has signed New York’s “ticket bot” law, making it illegal to use computer software to snap up large numbers of tickets online.
Resellers use the software to grab hundreds of tickets the instant they go online, ten resell them to you at scalper prices when you try to get one and find they’re sold out.
The new law imposes criminal penalties on the bot-users, and on ticket sites that knowingly resell tickets obtained that way.