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To: The Chinese government and Ticket-selling companies, specifically DaMai. 中国政府以及各个票务服务公司CEO (例如大麦网）
Stop Ticket Scalping: Installing CAPTCHA 断绝黄牛票
The ticket companies, specifically DaMai （大麦网), should pose CAPTCHA ("Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Humans and Computers Apart") in all of their ticket-selling platforms in order to prevent ticket scalpers from acquiring an exceptional amount of tickets via an illegal and immoral way of using bots. The Chinese government should also enforce laws to ensure and regulate this.
大麦网等票务平台应当在所有服务平台上使用CAPTCHA (全自动区分计算机和人类的图灵测试）系统来预防黄牛通过不正当刷票手段获取黄牛票二次售卖。中国政府也应当通过法律手段来管控和保证公司的实施。
大麦网等票务平台应当在所有服务平台上使用CAPTCHA (全自动区分计算机和人类的图灵测试）系统来预防黄牛通过不正当刷票手段获取黄牛票二次售卖。中国政府也应当通过法律手段来管控和保证公司的实施。
Why is this important?
The ticket scalping industry has grown into an intolerable size that is seriously impacting the entertainment market. Fans, mostly teenagers, face skyrocketing prices that are often multiple times of the original price, with constant incidences fake tickets even.
I am a student in China, and what just happened to me recently has awakened me to realize the severity of this problem in the ticket market right now. My favorite celebrity is hosting this concert in Shanghai, which I had been planning to go for months. I saved up a lot of money and finally got my parents to agree by studying really hard. I was really excited for this concert, however, when the tickets were out it was just impossible for me to get one from the website (大麦网) even with the help of my friends. All of the tickets were in the hands of ticket scalpers, and were sold almost 10 times as high. The original prices for about 480 yuan were about 4000 yuan, which was almost 10 times as high!!!Later, we found that the ticket scalpers had retrieved most of the tickets with machines called bots, which were much faster than human hands and allowed the scalpers to steal most of the tickets from fans. Further, most of the ticket-selling websites have not even installed CAPTCHA to identify machines from humans, which is what allowed most of the tickets sold to go into the hands of scalpers.
We have to stop the ticket scalpers from breaking our hearts and devastating our dreams. There is no way to do this if we do not UNITE and say NO To this !!! Stop ticket scalping by enabling companies to install CAPTCHA !!
黄牛票一直是一个极其严重的现象，对文化传播，市场经济，和社会方面造成了极大的影响甚至于说困扰。人们对于黄牛票的报道从来都是暧昧不清，从未得到实质性的解决方案或态度。粉丝们，大多还只是青少年，常常面临着狂涨的价格无能为力。此外，常常还有粉丝因买到假票损失惨遭。
我是一名高二的学生。最近发生在我身上的一件事让我严重意识到了黄牛的严肃性。我一直喜欢的明星要在上海办演唱会， 我期待了超级久，也拿出了自己之前存的奖学金和红包钱存着。为了这件事我挤进了年级前十名，终于让父母同意我去了。我感到非常兴奋，但是，当晚抢票时我怎么也抢不到。得知所有的门票都在黄牛手中后，我带着最后的希望去咨询黄牛，却发现门票售出了近十倍的高价，从最初的价格约480元飙升到了足足有4000元，几乎是原来的10倍!!!! 后来，我与一些朋友调查发现黄牛们都会使用抢票机器（bots）在网上抢票。因为这些机器比人类的手快得多，他们由此才得以抢走走大部分门票，并且狂抬价格。此外，大多数售票网站甚至都没有安装CAPTCHA来区分人类和机器，这才使得黄牛得以抢走绝大部分的门票。
几年来黄牛市场已越发张牙舞爪，价格也越来越夸张。我们不能再无动于衷了。只有一起抵制黄牛，我们才能捍卫我们作为消费者的尊严，才能不让更多像我一样的人被喜欢的人的演唱会拒之门外。所以，求求大家了，我们一定要让票务平台在他们的系统上安装CAPTCHA,阻止黄牛。
I am a student in China, and what just happened to me recently has awakened me to realize the severity of this problem in the ticket market right now. My favorite celebrity is hosting this concert in Shanghai, which I had been planning to go for months. I saved up a lot of money and finally got my parents to agree by studying really hard. I was really excited for this concert, however, when the tickets were out it was just impossible for me to get one from the website (大麦网) even with the help of my friends. All of the tickets were in the hands of ticket scalpers, and were sold almost 10 times as high. The original prices for about 480 yuan were about 4000 yuan, which was almost 10 times as high!!!Later, we found that the ticket scalpers had retrieved most of the tickets with machines called bots, which were much faster than human hands and allowed the scalpers to steal most of the tickets from fans. Further, most of the ticket-selling websites have not even installed CAPTCHA to identify machines from humans, which is what allowed most of the tickets sold to go into the hands of scalpers.
We have to stop the ticket scalpers from breaking our hearts and devastating our dreams. There is no way to do this if we do not UNITE and say NO To this !!! Stop ticket scalping by enabling companies to install CAPTCHA !!
黄牛票一直是一个极其严重的现象，对文化传播，市场经济，和社会方面造成了极大的影响甚至于说困扰。人们对于黄牛票的报道从来都是暧昧不清，从未得到实质性的解决方案或态度。粉丝们，大多还只是青少年，常常面临着狂涨的价格无能为力。此外，常常还有粉丝因买到假票损失惨遭。
我是一名高二的学生。最近发生在我身上的一件事让我严重意识到了黄牛的严肃性。我一直喜欢的明星要在上海办演唱会， 我期待了超级久，也拿出了自己之前存的奖学金和红包钱存着。为了这件事我挤进了年级前十名，终于让父母同意我去了。我感到非常兴奋，但是，当晚抢票时我怎么也抢不到。得知所有的门票都在黄牛手中后，我带着最后的希望去咨询黄牛，却发现门票售出了近十倍的高价，从最初的价格约480元飙升到了足足有4000元，几乎是原来的10倍!!!! 后来，我与一些朋友调查发现黄牛们都会使用抢票机器（bots）在网上抢票。因为这些机器比人类的手快得多，他们由此才得以抢走走大部分门票，并且狂抬价格。此外，大多数售票网站甚至都没有安装CAPTCHA来区分人类和机器，这才使得黄牛得以抢走绝大部分的门票。
几年来黄牛市场已越发张牙舞爪，价格也越来越夸张。我们不能再无动于衷了。只有一起抵制黄牛，我们才能捍卫我们作为消费者的尊严，才能不让更多像我一样的人被喜欢的人的演唱会拒之门外。所以，求求大家了，我们一定要让票务平台在他们的系统上安装CAPTCHA,阻止黄牛。