Reading and Leeds Festival boss Melvin Benn resold gig tickets

Reading and Leeds Festival boss Melvin Benn is a limit to profit there is resold gig tickets that can be made ​​by a resolution supported.

Speaking to BBC Radio 1, Benn said he had been for some time demanded this type of proposal because he thinks it will help prevent touting.

He said, "I've been asking for this for many years. It's the sort of bill that's been operational in New York State and Australia. It works. We've seen that it works."

He added: "People will still try to set up illegal websites but what it would do is give the public an absolute knowledge that if they're trying to sell at more than that percentage, it's almost certainly dodgy and illegal."

He added, "When you put this idea into practice it falls down and turns into rubbish. There's no place on the planet where a cap works."

He claimed that if this proposal resulted in a law that companies such as the UK will be forced to leave would mean.

Artists including Elbow, My Chemical Romance and Adele have backed the idea of a cap on the profit from resold tickets.