In a development that can only signal an impending apocalypse, Ticketmaster has taken action beneficial to music fans everywhere by striking a blow against pervasive ticket brokering/scalping. The ticketing megacorporation persuaded a U.S. District Court to issue an injunction against RMG Technologies prohibiting the use of computer programs that allow brokers to acquire tickets in bulk by circumventing Ticketmaster's procedures to prevent such mass purchases. The offending software helps the user jump the virtual line, avoid Ticketmaster's safeguards and snag large blocks of tickets, often before genuine fans can even log in. The tickets usually find their way onto the market, only with a gargantuan markup.

Anyone who has ever experienced the frustrating ordeal of being denied tickets despite trying to purchase them seconds after they went on sale must begrudgingly tip their hat to the oft-evil Ticketmaster. The enemy of my enemy is truly my friend.