You've gotta love a simple, low-tech solution to a difficult, high-tech problem. BILLBOARD's TAYLOR MIMS fills in some details on TEGAN AND SARA's novel assault on ticket resellers, which doesn't involve verifying fans, making tickets nontransferable, blocking bots or raising prices to match the bots. Instead, the sisters and their team started monitoring unsold tickets on STUBHUB and empty seats in the theaters where they're currently touring, and offering the same seats on a last-minute "pay what you can" basis to fans—many of whom, presumably, had been shut out of the initial on-sale. Basically, they're unilaterally reclaiming seats from scalpers and all but giving them away. All the money from the "rush seating" goes to Tegan and Sara's charitable foundation. And while one of their main goals was to avoid having to play to empty seats, there's been an unexpected benefit. When the tour started, tickets were being listed on StubHub for well over face value. As additional shows have been added and word of the rush seating has got around, the Tegan and Sara market on StubHub has crashed. Tickets worth $40 apparently are selling for $6. A StubHub rep tells Billboard the company "reached out to Tegan and Sara, as we consistently do with other artists to help them identify improved distribution solutions." But it's unclear if the duo is looking for help; they seem to have come up with an ingenious distribution solution on their own. "It absolutely works," says their co-manager, NICK BLASKO, whom Tegan credits with the original idea. Can it scale? Blasko has been sharing info with other artists. Tegan and Sara, meanwhile, are on tour through Nov 1. There are, of course, high-tech ideas out there, too, including TICKETMASTER's SafeTix and the startup DICE, which just scored a major coup for its all-mobile, non-resellable ticket technology: It will be the exclusive ticketer for next year's PRIMAVERA SOUND festival in Barcelona. More on Dice, which also has ambitions to be an online live music hub, soon... The deeply divided US government seems to have figured out how to come together over copyright and royalty legislation. Like the MUSIC MODERNIZATION ACT before it, the CASE ACT, which aims to set up a federal small-claims court for copyright disputes, passed the US House of Representatives by an overwhelming bipartisan majority Tuesday and now heads to the Senate. There is opposition, though—not from Democrats or Republicans, but from tech activists and the AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION, among others... More bad news for artists who are owed money by the failed fundraising platform PLEDGEMUSIC... "We made a mighty trio," says a heartbroken BONNIE RAITT of herself, producer DON WAS and Grammy-winning engineer ED CHERNEY, who died Tuesday at 69. Cherney's other clients included the ROLLING STONES, WILLIE NELSON, BOB DYLAN and QUEEN LATIFAH. RIP... RIP also RAYMOND LEPPARD, SONNY CURTIS and ARNOLD GOSEWICH.