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Ticket sellers don't care about the audience, just the profit.
Ticketsellers don't care if scalpers make it hard to get tickets at face value - they care about the extra profits these scalpers aren't sharing. This is their sole motive in suing the scalpers.
There's a simple way to kill all scalping. ID only tickets. If your name isn't on the ticket, you can't use it. Most ticketsellers have no interest in this because it costs money out of their pocket to enforce.
If scalpers set up a profit sharing deal with ticketsellers, you'd see what little anti-scalping enforcement their is dry up. Some deals are already possible now, which is why enforcement isn't more aggressive.