Comment by crazygringo

Exactly all of this.

I found the article really interesting from a tech perspective.

And I have no love for TicketMaster, but the migration from paper/PDF tickets to scannable changing QR codes is inevitable, precisely to combat scammers.

TicketMaster does a lot of bad things, but this doesn't seem to be one of them. And learning to download the digital tickets in advance -- either to the app or your Apple wallet -- is just a thing you learn to do, the same way you learn to download a bunch of podcasts before your airline flight that charges for (or doesn't have) WiFi. (And if your ticket was a PDF, you'd similarly be stuck if you couldn't get internet at the venue and hadn't downloaded it in advance.)