Helping TicketMaster: Changing the economics of ticket robots with geographic proof-of-work

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Kaiser, Edward ^a   Feng, Wu Chang ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

IP geolocation; Online ticketing; Proof of work

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED PURCHASING; CAPTCHAS; GEOLOCATIONS; MONTANA; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; WORLD-WIDE NETWORKS;

PROFITABILITY; ROBOTS;

SALES;

EID: 77953898190     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFCOMW.2010.5466663     Document Type: Conference Paper

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