President Lula signs a decree to regulate the sale of tickets for shows and events and combat so-called digital ticket scalping. The signing takes place on Monday, in the same week that a new edition of Rock in Rio premieres in Brazil. The festival is one of the most traditional in the country in the music area.
The decree determines that the primary ticket seller adopt measures and technological mechanisms intended to prevent and stop the mass, abusive, or speculative acquisition of tickets. The rules seek to curb purchases made through automated systems, software, scripts, or other similar means.
The objective of the regulation is to ensure that tickets are effectively sold to end consumers, and not to speculators who later resell them at higher prices. The text of the decree was obtained exclusively by the blog before the official signing.
