. >> reporter: from adele to bruce springste springsteen. ♪ dancing in the dark >> reporter: -- thousandsans shut out or forced to pay as much as $9,000 a ticket for their shows. the new york attorney general says the system is rigged against the consumer. >> middlemen, brokers, ticket vendors and more who really use any means they can, some legal, some illegal, our report uncovers what's really a shadowy network. >> reporter: the majority of tickets go to presales and music insiders, leaving less than half reserved for the public. and even then, ordinary fans have to compete with resellers, some who may use special software known as bots to buy up blocks of tickets at lightning fast speeds, often marking them up to astronomically high prices on the resale market. >> and that's what we call a rigged system. >> reporter: investigators say this crack down is just the tip of the iceberg. they will continue to look into this question and talk to lawmakers about really cracking down on those bad actors who drive up ticket prices. rebecca jarvis, abc news, new york. >>> they said try, what is i

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note the reason i said that is i was asked -- my friend donald has taken to his event playing bruce springstespringsteen's "born in the usa" and i was asked what i thought of that and i said well, if he wants to play a song, he could play "new york, new york." the concept of new york values is not that hard to figure out. not too many years ago, donald did a long interview with tim russert. and in that interview, he explained a whole host of issues that were very, very different from the views he's describes now. his explanation, look, i'm in new york. that's what we believe in new york. those aren't iowa values, but this is what we believe in new york. that was his explanation. i guess i can frame it another way. not a lot of conservatives come out of manhattan. i'm just saying. >> because he insulted a lot of people, i have had more calls on that statement that ted made, that new york is a great place. it's got great people, loving people, wonderful people. when the world trade center came down, i saw something that no place on earth could have handled more beautifully, more humane humanely