Its definately great to see some of these parasitic slimeballs get their just due, but I fear that scalpars are akin to terrorists and weeds: kill one...and 3 jump up to take their place.

But its a step!

Is this big enough to finally allow us to get decent tickets when we put in for the lottery, and when we buy them when they go on sale? That would be sweet if it was, but I feel like that will never go away...

20% at Hampton? That's about 14,000 tix. you bastards!

I agree with you guys on believing this will never go away. There are probably several others out there just like Wiseguys. The only way you can really prevent this from happening is to sell tickets to only people you know. I can imagine now a giant Helping Friendly Book with names and addresses of people for Trey, Fish, Page, and Mike to pick from for each show...what a chore...but then again, don't they also create time in the Phish/Gamehenge Time Phactory when they're not playing gigs as they mention during the New Years show in '95?

I would like to believe our chances to get better seats in the lottery have just improved, but I have a feeling half the folks issuing ticket requests in the lottery are jerkies just like these guys...in the lottery case, they just take what they get and post them for the higher price we're willing to give up.

Maybe someday technology will be able to figure out who the bad guys are. Until then, happy Phishin!

Hey! There may be people that try to make huge profits off of tickets but there are also those who sell below face value and give them for free too!

FINALLY! I'm sure there are more out there but at least some of those scum bags will be brought to justice.

That's awesome the attorney's name is Fishman!

I would say that there way more profiteers than miracle workers out there!! maybe live nation wont be such a cluster fuck when tix go on sale this summer. i got bumped with row j at deer creek and lower pavillion for both nights of the creek.... i was pissed!! not to mention the whole hampton situation. i never thought i would say this but goooo authorities!!

So when do Ticketmaster, LiveNation, etc get indicted?

TM will not be indicted any time soon, unless the pendulum swings back to the pre-Reagan days of anti-trust enforcement and not allowing the kinds of "market concentration" (monopolies) we have now with TM, LiveNation, etc.

That's a fancy pants, wise guy argument :-) that under our existing laws, TM doesn't do anything illegal, while random douchenozzles who hire Bulgarian hackers to game the TM online system and crowd out you and me with their automated bots, well, the fed's theory is that what the "wiseguys" did was illegal, to wit, "wire fraud", "hacking into protected computer systems" etc.

I hope for all of our sake, the feds are right and that Mr. Lowson at a minimum will be facing at least a few years in federal prison.

Also, I'm more hopeful than many that there won't be a million wannabee slimeballs to take their place. The prospect of prison should cool a lot of jets. And these guys had mad technical skillz....read the indictment , it's incredible...."the perfect crime", like the scam in "Office Space"...they knew they were on TM's radar screen, but their biggest worry was that TM would figure out that they weren't these small time scalpers but actually pwn3d TM's entire network, lock, stock and barrel.

I'm not seeing a lot of people with the skills and brass balls needed to follow in Lowson's footsteps if he goes away.

Phish should look into a rewards type program. I gladly pay face value for tickets, download flacs, buy from the dry goods website; Why can\'t they show us some love and let the loyal fans in on good seats first?