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Why shouldn't we use biometrics for security?
Because you can't change them once they are compromised. It breaks so many rules for security it isn't funny.
Why are companies/government pushing for this?
It is not about security, it is about tracking. This is the opposite of security and if we continue to allow it we will have severe consequences in our future.
As far as I’m concerned, Tom Waits solved ticket scalping back in 1999. He did two shows in my area on the Mule Variations tour. When you bought tickets, you could only buy two, and you had to give a name. Not an id, just a name. And then at the door, you had to show ID. You would anyway because it was a 21-and-up show, but the name on the ID had to match the name on the ticket. They didn’t scan shit. Just the doorman glanced at the name, and compared it to what was printed on the ticket. You could buy as many pairs of tickets as you wanted under the same name, but you couldn’t then sell them to people because their ID wouldn’t match at the door.
Simple. Non invasive. It worked. The show was amazing.
Ahhh. Ticket scalping. The real issue of today's generation that no one is courageous enough to talk about.
I mean, it is AN issue. We can do more than one thing at a time
The day I have to give some billionaire creep my biometrics to go to a show is the same day I decide I’m never going to a show again
You know what could solve ticket scalping? Ban ticket resales. That's always been an option. Venues don't do this because their only concern is selling out their seats.
they should just ban it for a profit, you should be able to resell tickets for what you paid for them, plans change.
Just as long as I can get a full refund if I'm unable to attend anymore. Maybe up to an hour before or something.
Or control the prices so people don't overpay.
TicketSwap does this and works with the venues I think.
How would you do this without verification? How do you still allow gift tickets or buying for a friend?
Tickets are issued to a name and are confirmed at entry with photo ID, just like with an airline ticket.
not much better than eye scanning.
also does not solve the gifting problem, because normally you don't know the ID of your friends
You only need to know their names. Their ID matches their names to their faces.
I don't trust a single thing that the world's most successful snake oil salesman of all time says.
I'm not sure I'd give him the #1 position. Definitely up there, but not quite at the top. Or maybe several megagrifters should share the throne.
Battle Royale of the megagrifters for the throne? Would surely sell some tickets, too. :3
Trump? Musk? There's plenty of competition for #1. Atleast AI is actually a thing.
Is it though?
Weird how so many techbro ideas boil down to registering your identification with the tech oligarchs...
I can't think of anyone I would rather give unalterable biometric information to than a group of egomaniacal sadists who have shown utter disregard for the privacy of everyone as well as the legal code.
happening at the same time as age verification many tech, and websites.
Scalping Sam Altman would surely sell some tickets.
Welcome to Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, because this is an idea pulled straight from that game.
Oh so we are mass producing punchable faces now eh?
Having just one wasn't enough, Sam?
Hope the next molotov finds its mark.
Fuck off Sam
You can't solve scalping when its a core function of LiveNation's ecosystem. Scalping is the business model.
I’m never going to a concert again
I'm going to support local anti-authoritarian punk and hip hop until they do away with this.
Support them after as well!
How does this achieve anything that requiring proof of purchase doesn't?
It achieves invading customer privacy.
Oh, and selling a lot of their scanner-ball hardware things. Because now anybody who ever buys tickets to any concert or any other live event will now also need to buy one of those little fuckers.
Because you can hand someone else proof of purchase. The only way to truly prevent scalping is by verifying the purchaser's identity, to ensure they cannot transfer it to anyone else. At least not without selling it through the distributor's own channels where they will then collect a fee for the privilege of providing the proprietary platform to facilitate such transactions.
I'll take the scalping, thanks.
How about you just restrict ticket sales to 1-2 per person and require it to be tied to a name on sale which is verified on use and cannot be easily changed? That's all you need to do.
No, I don't want random companies to have my legal name, I reserve the right to be anonymous both online and offline
do you pay cash for everything?
Whenever possible, yes. Unless I don't have cash with me, then I may sacrifice.
For online purchases I need to give my address anyway and name so I can pick the package so there's no way around it.
Whenever possible I always use a random fake name if really required to fill a name form.
For online purchases I need to give my address anyway and name so I can pick the package so there’s no way around it.
well, yeah, that's what we are talking about here. online purchases that require anti-bot procedures.
What a relief. As long as we are all tracked at all times by both government and corporations, we can finally be free of the burden of ticket scalping. It's a small price to pay for this great reward. I think we can turn our attention toward solving other oppressive plagues like Jay walking and double parking now.
Scam Altman: "Oh no - the bots are 2 good. Gaze into my black hole pls"
Scam Altman: Literally gave birth to the bot technology.
Gaze into my black hole pls
Well that could be misconstrued
The better to opress you with, my dear....biometric tracking everywhere for everything. We let them put microphones, cameras and location tracking, facial recognition in everything and everywhere, we might end up having to use LLMs as the interface to everything capturing voice, speech patterns, thought patterns....why the fuck not eyes, dna, fingerprints (wait, we already did that one)...
Are the orbs gonna shoot a laser beam that disintegrates the CEO of Ticketmaster?
They thought wrong.
This dumbass idea assumes a single person and NOT a group of people are responsible for scalping tickets, when in actuality this will just drive up scalping prices.
You fucking morons.
I don't think even Sam Altman thinks this. He's saying it, sure. He's a liar.
Do you have to put your eye on it? Because hello pink eye everyone!
tell them to hide in the metaverse
It is just a private company doing the verification solely, orb is just a gimmick to look like actual thing.
