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There was a Freakanomics episode about this. http://freakonomics.com/podcast/live-event-ticket-market-scr...

That's just arbitrage, right? If you're able to sell them at higher prices, the venue should've done it themselves.

I mean, without scraping, it basically comes down to whether or not you care enough about the event to be online refreshing the page at exactly 10 AM or whatever. with scraping it becomes about whether you have more money. some artists prefer the audience be more of the former and less of the latter

Wasn’t there a big case about that?