39-17-1105 - Interference with operations of ticket seller.
39-17-1105. Interference with operations of ticket seller.
(a) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires, ticket seller means a person who has executed a written agreement with the management of any venue for a sporting event, theater, musical performance, or public entertainment or amusement of any kind, to sell tickets to such an event over the Internet.
(b) It is an offense for any person to knowingly sell, give, transfer, use, distribute or possess with the intent to sell, give or distribute software that is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of interfering with the operations of any ticket seller that sells, over the Internet, tickets of admission to a sporting event, theater, musical performance, or place of public entertainment or amusement of any kind by circumventing any security measures on the ticket seller's web site, circumventing any access control systems of the ticket seller's web site, or circumventing any controls or measures that are instituted by the ticket seller on its web site to ensure an equitable ticket buying process.
(c) (1) A violation of this section is a Class B misdemeanor, punishable by fine only of not more than five hundred dollars ($500), or any profits made or tickets acquired in the course of the violation of this section, whichever amount is greater.
(2) Each acquisition, sale, or offer in violation of this section constitutes a separate offense.
[Acts 2008, ch. 731, § 1.]