Judge Sides With Ticketmaster, Orders Firm To Stop Helping Brokers Buy Tickets
Written by Evan SchumanOctober 15th, 2007
A federal judge Monday came down strongly on the side of Ticketmaster, agreeing to order a software company to stop a service where it helps people—many of them ticker brokers—buy tickets for Ticketmaster events.
The court's decision was being closely watched in E-Commerce circles because it spoke to how far federal law will go to protect online businesses from new and potentially threatening technologies. In this instance, though, the judge didn't address the E-Commerce issues in those broad terms, finding more than enough specifics in this case to justify the preliminary injunction, she said.
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