You Me At Six singer Josh Franceschi wants online ticket-buying bots banned
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You Me At Six singer Josh Franceschi has called for a change in the law to clamp down on online ticket touts.
The frontman has been calling for botnets - software which buys up huge numbers of tickets as soon as they go on sale - to be made illegal.
He was appearing before the Culture, Media and Sport select committee, where secondary ticketing websites were asked about their practises.
They say they are secure marketplaces for people to resell tickets.
But the singer said he decided to sell tickets to fans directly, after some ticket prices were massively inflated, because "enough was enough".
He said that the problem was in danger of damaging the "mutual respect" between bands and their fans.
"I feel like we made some steps today in a big way and I think there's a lot of evidence to suggest changes should be made," Josh told Newsbeat.
"The main point I wanted to get across is that I want transparency between the consumers and the sellers to live music.
"Ultimately I don't want to see the industry that I've grown up in and love, shy away from making the right decisions for the people who pump money into it and keep it afloat which is the fans of music.
"Right now they seem to be the only people that are losing out in this situation and I wanted to act as a voice for them."
And Conservative MP Nigel Adams accused sites like Stub Hub and eBay of having no interest in protecting music fans.
Josh Franceschi sold tickets to directly to fans from a shoe retailer in London's Covent Garden
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