[toomuchtodo]

Many years ago, when I purchased tickets to Nine Inch Nails concerts through their fan sales, they tied the ticket to the name on your government ID. And yes, they checked IDs. This was the cost of preventing scalping of premium tickets.

Some venues mandate facial recognition to get in [1]. I am not supportive of such corporate surveillance, but to rebut your comment, identity solutions exist to dissuade scalping, and some are in active use today. Even if you break up Live Nation, scalping will occur for events if profit is to be made.

[1] https://www.marketplace.org/2024/10/23/facial-recognition-th...

[mattmaroon]

Right, it’s a cost, and the people who’d have to pay it are Live Nation, who make money off the current system. So we’d be asking a corporation to pay to reduce its own profits.

That’s the sort of thing that only happens after a settlement with the government. Which, in the case of LN, is 100% what needs to happen.

[hansvm]

I have a blanket policy of rejecting venues adding extra terms and conditions (facial recognition, ids, ...) after I've already paid. If they want to do that, they need to at a bare minimum make it plain and obvious when you're purchasing the thing, or at an even barer minimum mention the egregious terms somewhere in the legalese associated with purchasing.

The corporate surveillance angle is also important, but IME 0% of these companies bother to explain that the thing they advertised when they took your money isn't the thing you actually have access to.