"Some irreducible number of people will claim a medical need to stay in touch with someone at home, such as a baby about to arrive, so notes from doctors will have to be parsed and judged in real time."
Have a no exceptions rule. No one NEEDS to see Alicia Keys.
SO now instead of calling 911, who will get the on site EMS to you as quickly, you have to track down an employee of the venue (probably not a concession employee either) and get them to call it in. That takes time.
Imagine this, you're at a crowded concert, your partner collapses next to you. How do you get help? How do you get the attention of the staff? At times like those time is critical. The lawsuit whether they win or lose would be horrible PR and expensive to defend.
Sorry but their copyright claim is worth far less then a persons life.
On another note, will this increase their fire insurance since everyone will have to go back to holding lighters in the air?
Sounds like you used will call at the AC/DC and Rush concerts. If I have had tickets in hand I have never had to show an ID or a receipt.
And no it's not Ticketmaster (they act as a box office agent, they don't actually buy the tickets and resell them), it starts with AMEX who gets up to 50% of the available tickets for their concierge program. Sometimes general ticket sales account for less then 10% of the overall ticket sales.
The largest percentage of tickets sold do not go to the general public, they go to AMEX and are sold to card holders as rewards. Depending on the concert AMEX may get 50% of the tickets before they ever go on sale.
The rich don't pay scalper prices. They get them from AMEX, who gets far more tickets then anyone else, far far more then the scalpers. No it's the poor and the middle class who get stuck paying scalper prices.
Says some one who has never bought tickets months in advance. Sometimes life happens.
Granted this law will do nothing with the biggest offender. Credit card pre-sales. You know, those credit card rewards that guarantee you tickets before anyone else can get them. Or the fact bands themselves may scalp their own tickets.
Your likely hood of getting tickets from the box office are basically nil for a popular show.
Take the Jan 18 Bieber show. Out of 14000 seats, just over 1000 were available for general sale.
6000 went to Amex presales
3000 to Fan Club members
2600 to promotions, guest lists and un-sell-able seats (due to visual obstruction)
900 to other VIP programs
and 500 were scalped by the biebs himself
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We were waiting for you.
Yet when they get in power, the idea of small government seems to disappear, that probably has something to do with why they can never stay in power.
This isn't about you annoying others with your phone calls. It is about the "artist" not wanting you to record any part of the event.
Say it has general admission seating. How will they know where you are?
I do not believe there are any ADA rules regarding cellphones.
"Some irreducible number of people will claim a medical need to stay in touch with someone at home, such as a baby about to arrive, so notes from doctors will have to be parsed and judged in real time."
Have a no exceptions rule. No one NEEDS to see Alicia Keys.
I've been doing that for years.
I do not want to be someones training dummy when it comes to CPR.
SO now instead of calling 911, who will get the on site EMS to you as quickly, you have to track down an employee of the venue (probably not a concession employee either) and get them to call it in. That takes time.
A ban on that type of policy.
We do love our reactionary bans, regardless of whether they are effective or not.
the financially responsible idiot.
And in the age of cellphones, he died while you were at the concert too, but now it actually ruins the show.
Society has changed. People expect them to be there, even the concert staff.
The stadium is general admission and is crowded, your partner collapses next to you. How do you get the attention of this trained staff?
Imagine this, you're at a crowded concert, your partner collapses next to you. How do you get help? How do you get the attention of the staff? At times like those time is critical. The lawsuit whether they win or lose would be horrible PR and expensive to defend.
Sorry but their copyright claim is worth far less then a persons life.
On another note, will this increase their fire insurance since everyone will have to go back to holding lighters in the air?
Since when are we taking anything the BSA claims without a dump truck load of salt.
Considering HFT does nothing for the company who's stocks are being traded, I see no reason it shouldn't be.
Sounds like you used will call at the AC/DC and Rush concerts. If I have had tickets in hand I have never had to show an ID or a receipt. And no it's not Ticketmaster (they act as a box office agent, they don't actually buy the tickets and resell them), it starts with AMEX who gets up to 50% of the available tickets for their concierge program. Sometimes general ticket sales account for less then 10% of the overall ticket sales.
As long as you never go to New York, nothing. If they do id you though, you could be arrested next time you try and cross the border.
The largest percentage of tickets sold do not go to the general public, they go to AMEX and are sold to card holders as rewards. Depending on the concert AMEX may get 50% of the tickets before they ever go on sale.
The rich don't pay scalper prices. They get them from AMEX, who gets far more tickets then anyone else, far far more then the scalpers. No it's the poor and the middle class who get stuck paying scalper prices.
When the majority of your tickets are already sold before the public gets a chance it is extremely disingenuous to blame the scalpers.
Says some one who has never bought tickets months in advance. Sometimes life happens.
Granted this law will do nothing with the biggest offender. Credit card pre-sales. You know, those credit card rewards that guarantee you tickets before anyone else can get them. Or the fact bands themselves may scalp their own tickets.
Your likely hood of getting tickets from the box office are basically nil for a popular show.
Take the Jan 18 Bieber show. Out of 14000 seats, just over 1000 were available for general sale.
6000 went to Amex presales
3000 to Fan Club members
2600 to promotions, guest lists and un-sell-able seats (due to visual obstruction)
900 to other VIP programs
and 500 were scalped by the biebs himself
1001 were sold to the general public.
So yeah, lets blame the scalpers.
who is "they", and do you have any source to back up what sounds like a completely bullshit statement?
If you remember my posts over the years you would not call me a conservative. Anti-social? sure, but I am about as liberal as they come.