A NY State law that has allowed legalized scalping to take place over the past three years is due to run out this Saturday, and it is looking more and more unlikely that it'll get renewed. Back in 2007, the bill was introduced to try to bring the scalping market into the open and regulate it more easily. But the hold up now is because of paperless tickets, which is favored by Ticketmaster because it boxes out brokers by requiring a ticket's original buyer to verify his or her identity at the box office. Paperless ticketing gives more control over to companies like Ticketmaster, while making it harder for consumers to resell tickets. Pols such as Richard Brodsky want more control over ticket prices, and are against the measure: “Proponents of this often call it a free market. But permitting unfettered resale is an attack on the free market.”