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📮 Homework · Sam Fender's Newcastle pre-sale moved after 'bot attack'

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§1

Stakeholder map: who stands where on a Sam Fender ticket

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🏠 Take-home task

Interview an adult

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Please list four alternatives to first-come-first-served ticket sales for high-demand events (ballot, loyalty-weighted allocation, blind auction, slow queue with ID) and for each one name the main criticism it gets. Do not rank them.
Ask one adult at home or in your family one question: 'The last time you tried to buy tickets for a gig or a match that sold out, what happened and did you think the sale was fair?' Write two sentences: one naming their experience, and one saying which of the three stakeholders in today's map their answer most reminded you of.
AI useOptional. You can also ask an AI how big-event ticket sales are typically designed to try to be fair. Any of Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini is fine.
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§2

Ethical dilemma: your cousin has a bot

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Interview an adult

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Please summarise in three bullets what the UK law currently says about using automated software to buy tickets, including the year the law came in and the penalty it sets. Do not add commentary.
Ask one adult at home or in your family one question: 'Would you let someone you trust use a ticket-buying bot to get you a ticket for face value, if the alternative was missing out entirely?' Write two sentences: one naming their answer, and one saying which of the two positions in today's lesson their answer was closest to.
AI useOptional. You can also ask an AI what the current UK law says about ticket-buying bots. Any of Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini is fine.
If no AI or internetYou can speak to any adult in person or on the phone — no AI needed.
Bring backTwo sentences, handwritten or typed.
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§3

Debate: criminalise the bot, hold the resale platform jointly liable

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One other industry

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Please list three real UK markets from the last twenty years disrupted by automated software — high-frequency trading, limited-release trainers, games console pre-orders, concert tickets. For each one, name what the industry did about it. Do not add commentary.
Find one real UK example of a different industry where automated software has disrupted a market in the last twenty years — high-frequency trading on the stock market, bots scraping concert dates, bots buying limited-release trainers, bots on resale sites for games consoles. Write two sentences: one summarising what the industry did about it, and one saying whether making the operator criminally liable would have changed the outcome.
AI useOptional. If you use an AI you can ask it for real UK examples of markets disrupted by automated software. Any of Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini is fine.
If no AI or internetYou can use a physical reference book, ask a family member, or search a school library.
Bring backTwo sentences, handwritten or typed.
Stay safeNever share your name, school or address with the AI.