Someone Heard the Cry

This is inevitable.

A State Representative from Tennessee is planning on introducing legislation to restrict ticket brokering in his state.

The Hannah Montana tour provided some motivation from some of Curry Todds constituents for him to engage in some discovery about what to put in to his bill.

The main target of the bill seems to be brokers that use ticketing software to buy extra tickets to an event. He is also talking about having brokers put up a $500 registration fee or a $10,000 bond.

The Honorable Todd, who is a stereotype-breaking Republican, had the following to say about the ticket brokering business - "We need legislation that would keep anyone from profiting from the sale of tickets whose service does not directly benefit the artist, the promoter or the consumer, Why should anyone who has not contributed toward the event benefit from it?"
We are unaware if he is introducing any legislation restricting house flipping, HGTV for broadcasting shows about house flipping or oil traders.

With the amount of public outcry from parents who had tales to tell about how they could not get Hannah Montana tickets, Mr. Todd leads the first of what is sure to be several State Houses that will have legislation introduced in 2008 restricting ticket brokering. We must keep in mind that the trend for several years was the other way – for the states to repeal laws that restricted ticket brokering. For several years now a free market mindset, with the help of lobbying groups employed by eBay, has taken over the thought process.

The Hannah Montana effect cannot be ignored for the short term. But the cry of “injustice” from the grass roots will die out. We are not talking about apartheid. We are talking about ten-year-old girls who did not go to a concert.

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