Comments by "Traveller" (@traveller23e) on "Am I going to jail for web scraping?" video.

@jesusmods1 As an artist I could easily see situations where I didn't want to sell tickets at market price. If a particularly famous artist were giving a special concert in a very small venue and there were only 100 tickets available, they could probably be sold at $10,000. However the tradeoff is that then the audience would be restricted to wealthy upper-crust individuals, and that same artist might not want to play to that kind of audience. Or maybe the artist would just figure "eh, I don't need all the money in the world, let me sell the tickets at a more reasonable price". The point is, there are sometimes valid reasons not to price things at the "correct" value according to capitalism. As a side note, the opposite is also true. One of the classic techniques of discouraging activities (e.g. smoking) is to put high taxes on the equipment required. Capitalism doesn't demand those prices, that's society deciding that the sale is problematic. (Note that there are fairer ways to do this, but this is still a very popular method.)
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You say that, but I absolutely think that some things shouldn't be resellable, particularly high-demand tickets purchasable online and the like. If you do allow resale, you make it so that the only ones buying from you are bots ready to make a resale at a huge markup. I know there's an argument for "but what if you end up not being able to go?" and I'd say the obvious solution is to allow selling the ticket back to the original vender minus a small return fee so it could then be sold last-minute to others.
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@JarrowJR How does one protect against that, short of using Tor?
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