It's weird. If you went to a store and bought all the apples, the owner of the store would love you. Do the same thing online, and suddenly you are facing federal felony charges.
It's clear that TicketMaster doesn't really want to solve this problem. If they did, they could solve it the same way the airlines did. (Hint: not by having a captcha on the credit card info page.)
- It would be totally fair if the concert venue chose to not honor those scalped tickets since I violated their ToS, and if they told me what a d--- I was...
BUT
- I should not be arrested.