‘Hamilton’ Ticket Bots Will Stop in Ticketmaster Settlement (1)

Ticketmaster Inc. has settled a copyright lawsuit against a ticket broker accused of using bots to scoop up thousands of “Hamilton” tickets.

The July 8 settlement is a win for consumers and primary ticket sellers in the fight against bot use in the entertainment industry, which has forced fans to pay steep, marked-up prices to see shows.

Prestige Entertainment West Inc. will stop using automated software to buy tickets from Ticketmaster, under a final judgment by the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Ticketmaster claimed Prestige’s bots made duplicates of copyrighted website data and circumvented security measures ...