A New Jersey judge has tossed out a case against two ticket resellers in a a lawsuit filed by the state against two concert ticket resellers over the resale of tickets to Bruce Springsteen shows at Giants Stadium last year.

Orbitz Worldwide and TicketNetwork Direct were charged with violating the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act by offering tickets before they were made available to the public, some of which they allegedly didn't possess at the time or which didn't correspond to actual seats in the stadium.

Sportsbusinessjournal.com is reporting that Paciolan and StubHub have inked a partnership in which StubHub’s secondary ticketing functionality is offered with Paciolan’s primary ticketing systems for an impressive roster of American college football and basketball teams. 

When the Department of Justice made Ticketmaster’s divestiture of Paciolan a requirement of the merger of Ticketmaster and Live Nation, a company that became Live Nation Entertainment, Comcast-Spectacor regained 100 percent control of the company.  Paciolan sells over 100 million tickets annually. Whether Stubhub will participate in the other partnerships in pro sports and major venues remains to be seen.

The Birmingham News is reporting a con man is facing jail after selling £8,000 of fake Take That tickets on auction site eBay. Jason Debney ripped off over 100 fans who wanted to attend the sell-out show at Birmingham’s NEC Arena, by taking their money and simply not supplying tickets.

He sold tickets to about 100 unwitting customers, netting him between £7,000 and £8,000.

In making, what seems to finally be an attempt to enter web 2.0, Live Nation Entertainment is attempting to 'reach out' and present a new, consumer-friendly face on it's largely-despised brand - with a... blog. Called Ticketology- the brand, it appears, will now inform us the ins and outs of the business - starting with service fees.

"We get it – you don’t like service fees.  You don’t like them mostly because you don’t understand what the heck they are for.

Well that's enticing.  Followed by...

Bob Dylan and His Band performing one show on Wednesday, August 25, at The Warfield in San Francisco, USA and, interestingly, All tickets are general admission and will be available at The Warfield box office on the day of the show only. No advance tickets will be available anywhere for this performance. Admission to the show is $60 cash. No credit cards will be accepted.