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Re: The London 2012 Olympics: Current affairs discussion
going up..3rd place... 
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19112520
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The man behind an unofficial Olympic ticket alerts feed says he is "shocked" by an effort to block the service.
Adam Naisbitt wrote a computer program that checked the official Olympics ticket site to spot when tickets for events were released.
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Now, he said, all that those wanting tickets could do was keep re-visiting the official site and endlessly refreshing the page to see if they can spot when tickets were released.
A spokeswoman for Locog said the block was not aimed specifically at the @2012ticketalert service.
Instead, she said, the block was imposed by TicketMaster, London 2012's ticket agency, on all automatic scrutiny of the site in a bid to stop touts snapping up tickets and selling them for a profit.
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I'm not sure that will stop ticket touts and how do people manage to keep going back to the site when they have to work,travel,sleep.
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