Ticket touts are scum-sucking leeches

What's even more annoying is the ease at which this fleecing can now take place.
All you need is an internet connection or a couple of phones and a credit card to get a ticket. This is meant to be progress but when the average fan can't get to see their favourite band something must be going seriously wrong.
I've met many touts during my many years of going to gigs. They're universally ugly, chinless and shifty. Sleaze comes easy to them. I'd rather sell my liver than buy or sell to them, but many people choose to do so.
They'll often get the worst seats in the house or even a fake ticket that won't get them in at all.
There really ought to be legislation against the practice. You can guarantee that these people won't be paying tax.
Michael Eavis has tried to address the problem with a faffy system of photo-ID that is meant to make the tickets non-transferable, but even that is open to abuse. You'll see eBay ads for Glastonbury tickets with the added description "white, long brown hair, glasses and a squint".
So what is to be done about it? Well, one way would be to make the tickets only available at the venue box office which would mean that your tout in Plymouth would have to make the journey up and queue with the rest of us.
Bands, too, ought to make an effort, maybe offering a certain number of tickets purely available through preregistered fan clubs or mySpace pages.
No doubt there are many touts who will still get a ticket, but I fail to see why we're making it so easy for them.