WISEGUY

Online ticket sellingTicket for events are sold online by venders who are referred as online ticket venders.

These venders usually negotiate and obtain the right to be the exclusive distributer of tickets to the primary market.

The venders can sell these tickets in two ways1. Primary market (to the general public) 2. Secondary market (to the brokers)

Online ticket vendersrelated to the case

Online ticket vendersThey work on a first come first serve basis

Customers are the takers i.e. they can not demand for their preferred seats.

Customers can only choose from the options left

They do not declare at what time of the day the online counter will open

They discourages bulk purchase, to avoid secondary market selling

Security measures taken by the venders

They have programs that prohibit bots, worms, spiders and crawlers.They also use CAPTCHA to differentiate between human and machine

Also have audio CAPTCHA for visually impaired customers

They monitor the IP addresses to make sure no bulk purchase is done from a particular machine

IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT CAPTCHA IS?

TRY OPENING YOUR GMAIL ACCOUNT WITH A WRONG PASSWORD gmail

CAPTCHAS

CAPTCHA

WISEGUYThe company was established in 2001 and was happily working until the start of 2009.

The company actually worked under the names wiseguys, seats of san Francisco Inc., Smaug Inc., Platinum Technologies Inc., and all these names are collectively reffered to as wiseguys.

Co-owner:- Kenneth Lowson , Kristofer Kirsch

Programmer:- Joel Stevenson

Financial Officer:- Faisal Nahdi

Other employees:- B.C, D.E, M.P, J.Z, B.W

No. of employees were around 10-15

WiseguyThe company used fraudulent misrepresentation and computer hacking to purchase tickets for concerts, sporting events, other live events throughout U.S.

They used to change/adapt their methods and continued.

27th September 2010Attorney Mark Rush, who represents Wiseguy owner Kenneth Lowson, argued before U.S. District Judge Katharine S. Hayden that while his client and the other three may have violated Ticketmaster's terms of service, which prohibit the use of "bot" software to circumvent their security protocols, they did not commit a federal crime.

The defendants, Lowson, Kristofer Kirsch, Joel Stevenson and Faisal Nahdi, have received support from several advocacy groups, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, that have sent briefs to the court arguing that they do not believe a crime was committed.