On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Randall Webmail <rv...@insightbb.com> wrote: > My neighborhood Wal*Mart has pretty much eliminated cashiers in favor of > self-checkouts. > >[...] > Wal*Mart is not stupid. They know full well that a certain percent of > shoppers will indeed walk out with a certain amount of goods, every day.
Yes, but this is not the same situation as with Ticketmaster. The equivalent for Ticketmaster would be scalpers who go through the captcha many times, by hand, *slowly*, and who adhere to per-person purchase limits or who make minimal efforts to get on a bit past such limits -- something Ticketmaster may be willing to tolerate. To do much better than slow down the scalpers Ticketmaster would have to either do a lot of work (with payments system providers' help) to ensure that payments are not anonymous and that the there is one person per ticket purchase for any one event, or else they'd have to auction off the tickets so as to find the market price for them. I'm not sure as to the feasibility of the former, particularly when Ticketmaster can probably get the law to help, but I'd prefer the latter. (Perhaps because I'm not going to bother camping out for bracelets and I can probably afford free market rates for the events I want to attend!) Nico -- _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
