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"Hannah Montana" bill passes in Minnesota Senate


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Nicknamed after the Disney teen star, this bill is to prevent blocks of tickets from being purchased on the internet and cheating the rest of us out of decent seats.
Why are other states resisting this?
huntre

27 responses // "Hannah Montana" bill passes in Minnesota Senate

  • Im so glad she has a bill named after her now.
    515dsm
  • Concert tickets represent an aberrition in the world of free market economics. The fact that tickets sometimes sell for two or three times their face value is an indication that the tickets are under priced in the first place. Revenue that rightly should go to the performer is diverted into the hands of speculators who produce no value.
    seeker561
  • This is a start. Will the government ever admit that TicketMaster is a monopoly that has a stranglehold on fans, performers, vendors, and promoters? And it is a literal stranglehold, too.
    AceHardchester
  • http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-han...
    Here's what happened in Florida. The other side of the story. Apparently, the only reason it's become an issue worth taking action over is a personal response from not being able to get decent "HM" tickets for some of the legislator's kids.
    The old, "It's not an issue until it gets right in my face", thing.
    Why does this not surprise me?
    huntre
  • this is good news. now the next time i want to go to St. Paul to watch britney spears i wont have to pay $500 for the nosebleed section.
    donny_dark_o
  • I don't see any reason why the common man can't make some profit off of the huge amount of money others are willing to pay for certain tickets.

    Seeker561 claims that the revenue should rightly go to the performer. Well everything that the performer should've recieved was, indeed recieved by said performer. "Performers" earn too much money. Many shows and performances, concerts and other forms of entertainment are vapid and mind-numbing.

    Meanwhile, these 'performers' are 'earning' gobs of money, for virtually nothing. Many of us work a 50+ hour week for very little pay...and if someone can earn more money by reselling these over-priced tickets, more power to them.
    mconway1
  • I agree with "huntre". The only time most issues actually make it to a bill or into law is when it affects the politicians directly.

    Not that this isn't an annoying problem in our free market, but there are so many other issues that should be dealt with.
    :(
    Binarysunset
  • binarysunset: at the state level there really is not as much as one may think.

    mconway1: i am sorry, but scalping tickets is lame and most likely illegal.

    a ticket is similar to a license agreement. the agreement being that you will be permitted to attended an event at a specific time and location. when you purchase the ticket you agree to the license. and most likely the license is not transferable. if you sell a ticket that fits this criteria, you are in essence selling something completely worthless to the other party as the license does not transfer. yes i know this doesn't matter as the person who takes your ticket at the venue doesn't care who the person is with the ticket, as long as you have the ticket.

    but what if they started putting your name or picture on the ticket and, because of heightened security, had to verify your identity to get in. this would make it impossible for unauthorized ticket sales to occur. in my opinion it would a great thing.
    donny_dark_o
  • ""Performers" earn too much money"

    No. In America, no one earns too much money. Baseball players earn millions because of supply and demand . There just aren't that many people that can hit a 90 mile per hour fastball one time out of three.

    Same with performers. If people are willing to pay $500 to see Miley or Brittney, then that is exactly what they are worth.

    "I don't see any reason why the common man can't make some profit ......"

    We are not talking about someone who got 4 tickets and decides to sell two because his brother can't make it . We are talking about resellers that are gaming the system and squeezing you out of the initial offering.
    seeker561
  • "We are not talking about someone who got 4 tickets and decides to sell two because his brother can't make it . We are talking about resellers that are gaming the system and squeezing you out of the initial offering."

    i agree, but i think that there should be some way to get a partial refund at the ticket counter if a ticket is going to go unused. this is not done now because of the "headache" that would be involved with it.
    donny_dark_o
  • The big resellers are the scum of the earth. There's nothing wrong with "giving it to the big man" as some seem to suggest. But nor is it "right" to hire homeless people to join queues, and develop computer programs that flood presale events to buy all the best tickets. These people are not fans of the artists they're paying to see; they just know that some schlub with a bunch of money is going to be willing to pay 500% of the original ticket just so they can be twenty feet away from someone's crotch.
    AceHardchester
  • http://www.natb.org/consumer/index.cfm?pg=code.cfm
    Here's a code of ethics worth mulling over...
    huntre
  • good news for us, bad news for people who have the time and money to rip us off
    alman365
  • Great bill- terrible name.
    BetterWatching
  • Wow, we actually got something done! Now if only we could get rid of that damn Gov. Pawlenty......

    (Minnesota Resident Here)
    mariposablanca
  • Good for her, but more important bills have been held up for decades by 'speical interests' and corps - why?
    patsarts
  • A bill named after her now?? Dang this girl is popular. haha

    But in all seriousness, this is a good step. I know there are so many people who take advantage of the easy way to make money bu buying bulk amounts of tickets at cheap prices and selling them for WAY more as concerts sell out and get closer.
    CFriedman
  • OK, but when are they going to take some REAL action? I'd like to see some Bush vetoes in the future!
    cheyroze
  • I think this is ridiculous!
    iknew
  • It remains to be seen if this bill will pass the house, and moreover if it will actually be enforced.

    I was disturbed to see that Republican opposition was largely the cause of the defeat of a similar bill in Florida. Rep. Ralph Poppell was quoted as saying "Isn't this just free enterprise?" This points to a disturbing mentality among the Republican party that all aspects of business ought not to be meddled with. Contrary to this opinion, monopolies and black markets often pervert the standard economic model of supply and demand. This laissez fair paradigm on the economy did not work in the thirties, and it doesn't work now.
    Starving_Artist
  • Starving Artist.
    In Minnesota, the Reps put up quite a fight, but the Dems put up a stronger worded one (with a little help from across the aisle. shhhh. don't tell) and won. It is, without question, a two party tug-o-war issue, directly linked to big business. Watch as it passes and fails, state by state, depending on which party has the upper-hand.
    I think the bill's nickname is perfect. It's a blur between Media and Politics...
    ...like real life.
    huntre
  • ( agrees with huntre )
    malathion
  • Odd how they named it after her. That was stupid in my opinion.

    This would be unfair too all customers, if all states put this into affect. Many people do not have enough time to spend outside in a line for a ticket and would much rather reserve/buy it online. While the other people who Do actually wait in line may not have internet access.
    zero_0
  • This is a big thing in Missouri , they decided to let the scalpers purchase the blocks of tickets. I can't possiblely understand the move of Kansas City, city council.
    nekromcr
  • I can't take any bill named Hanna Montana seriously.
    jdchristianson
  • What ever happened to the days when we would get a lawn chair and a cooler of beer and camp out for Hanna Montana tickets? Take it back to the OG.
    rocktilirot
  • Gee, the legislature of Minnesota seems to be wasting its time, eh?
    alexlitel

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