HB2420 - Tennessee: Criminal Offenses

Companion Bill SB2940. Criminal Offenses - Makes it an offense to knowingly sell, give, transfer, use, or distribute, or possess with intent to sell, give, or distribute, any software that is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of interfering with the operations of any ticket seller that sells, over the Internet, tickets of admissions to a sporting event, theater, musical performance, or place of public entertainment or amusement, by circumventing any security measures on the ticket seller's Web site or circumventing any controls or measures that are instituted by the ticket seller on its Web site to ensure an equitable ticket buying process; offense is Class B misdemeanor punishable only by a fine of not more than $5,000 or any profits made or tickets acquired in the course of the violation, whichever is greater. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 11. Fiscal Summary [...]

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