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How so? If you're a scalper how are you going to sell hundreds or thousands of tickets without an easy to find web front? You don't stop scalpers by "fixing t

• shakna 10y ago
  > You don't stop scalpers by "fixing the selling motion", you fix it by putting the people who violate it into jail and/or bankrupt them and make it unprofitable. That approach seems to have worked so well with the War on Drugs, too, hasn't it?
  • tw04 10y ago
    That's about the worst analogy I think you could possibly make. The war on drugs is a failure for a number of reasons, primarily among them because the drugs themselves are illegal, and users are prosecuted. If they simply made the distribution illegal, it would be a huge step forward but not remotely like this. You don't buy drugs to get into an event that has people checking your entry at the gate. There's no serial number on your drugs. There's no entity you have to go exchange your drugs with for some other item/good/event.
  • tw04 10y ago
    That's about the worst analogy I think you could possibly make. The war on drugs is a failure for a number of reasons, primarily among them because the drugs themselves are illegal, and users are prosecuted. If they simply made the distribution illegal, it would be a huge step forward but not remotely like this. You don't buy drugs to get into an event that has people checking your entry at the gate. There's no serial number on your drugs. There's no entity you have to go exchange your drugs with for some other item/good/event.