Evil, ticket-gulping bots?

What high tech wonder-tools does RMG use to defeat Ticketmaster’s captchas, the annoying jumble of characters used to prove your humanity? Is it Optical Character Recognition? Something even more futuristic, maybe web 3.0-ish? Nah. Cipriano Garibay, president of RMG Technologies, boasts: "We pay guys in India $2 an hour to type the answers."

Here is the full story of why concert events must move more and more toward market-clearing prices.  Thanks to Aaron Steinberg for the pointer.

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