Ed Sheeran Ticket Touts must repay £6,000,000.00

[The Mad Monk]

Ed Sheeran ticket touts have been ordered to repay six million pounds.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-63972820

[Pieman68]

Probably be a better outcome all round if Sheeran was made to pay back every poor sod who's bought a ticket or any of his music

[Teddy Lop]

That's super, what changed in the law? I know there was an investigation during blairs reign that ended with a decision to "let the industry police itself" (aka something campaign contributions something. Probably.)

Close to my heart, love going to gigs but buying tickets for anything "big" has been a joke for a long while, and with getmein being a subsidiary of Ticketmaster - meaning tickets transferred directly before fans even get a look-in - plus now "dynamic pricing" looming - I wasn't holding much hope of any intervention. In fact it's pretty sad this story has so little traction.

[Grrbang]

"high-profile events and concerts by artists such as ... McBusted"

Who?