§ 14-344.2. Prohibition on ticket purchasing software.
§ 14‑344.2. Prohibitionon ticket purchasing software.
(a) Definition. Theterm "ticket seller" means a person who has executed a writtenagreement with the management of any venue in North Carolina for a sportingevent, theater, musical performance, or public entertainment of any kind tosell tickets to the event over the Internet.
(b) Unfair TradePractice. A person who knowingly sells, gives, transfers, uses, distributes,or possesses software that is primarily designed or produced for the purpose ofinterfering with the operation of a ticket seller who sells, over the Internet,tickets of admission to a sporting event, theater, musical performance, orpublic entertainment of any kind by circumventing any security measures on theticket seller's Web site, circumventing any access control systems of theticket seller's Web site, circumventing any access control solutions of theticket seller's Web site, or circumventing any controls or measures that areinstituted by the ticket seller on its Web site to ensure an equitable ticketbuying process shall be in violation of G.S. 75‑1.1. The ticket sellerand venue hosting the ticketed event have standing to bring a private right ofaction under G.S. 75‑1.1 for violation of this section.
(c) Original Ticket Seller. A person or firm is not liable under this section with respect to tickets forwhich the person or firm is the original ticket seller. (2008‑158, s. 2; 2009‑255,s. 1.)