Fighting the Web, Sports Teams Seek to Control Ticket Resales
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Teams are controlling the resale market for their tickets to cut down on counterfeiting and the high prices demanded by scalpers.
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The Internet has taught major league sports teams that scalping was never really the problem. The problem has been the ridiculous amount of effort expended trying to stamp it out.
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A lawsuit seeks to discover how ticket brokers manage to snatch up a high proportion of tickets for big-name concerts to resell them at inflated prices.
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Regulation of online betting on the cards
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An online ticket sale for the Colorado Rockies home World Series games was suspended after the teams automated ticketing vendor took its servers offline, saying they had been hit by denial-of-service attacks.
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The major U.S. professional sports  leagues are looking to their digital assets, especially Web  sites and television networks, to drive growth.
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Some Super Bowl advertisers used their 30 seconds to drive visitors to their Web sites, while others made it difficult to find their online presence.
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A Suffolk Superior Court judge is allowing StubHub Inc. to proceed with its lawsuit accusing the New England Patriots of trying to monopolize the resale of its own tickets.
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A Web blockbuster is evolving to try to stay ahead of rivals.
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MANHASSET, N.Y., Feb. 5  /PRNewswire/ -- Downtime isn't an option in the high-stakes, high-profile world of online events. If the audience can't get in, the hosting organization can't realize its revenue goals -- or bank on the trust of would-be attendees in the future.
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They play for millions of dollars in a sport where every move is analyzed and scrutinized by owners, general managers, coaches and scouts.
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After owners indulge their fantasy of buying a team, they tend to start viewing the team as a business.
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When Northwest Airlines Corp. said last week it will charge extra fees for tickets not bought on its Web site, it caused a chain reaction in an industry still grappling with the impact of the Internet.
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The Rangers are at war with the National Hockey League over their Web site. Should they control it or should the league?
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Street hawkers are history. Savvy resellers use the web to turn tickets into cash. By Steve Knopper from Wired magazine.
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Green Monster seats don't even go on sale until Feb. 24 -- and then only to Red Sox fans selected in a random drawing -- but one website is already listing the tickets for resale.
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The Colorado Rockies tried again yesterday to sell nearly 60,000 World Series tickets online, one day after their first attempt collapsed in a computer-system crash the team blamed on an "external, malicious attack."