Key Investment Group said the FTC is misapplying the Better Online Ticket Sales Act, a 2016 law which it said was meant to target malicious software, not legitimate resale businesses. Key Investment Group sued the FTC in July to try to prevent the agency from using the law against it, saying it uses human employees — not bots — to buy tickets.

The FTC has filed a lawsuit against a ticket reseller company for allegedly price-gouging tickets to Taylor Swift's Eras Tour.

The agency claims Maryland-based ticket broker KIG used "illegal means" to circumvent Ticketmaster security measures and buy hundreds of thousands of tickets to numerous events