AFC warns fans of illegal ticket sales

The Asian Football Confederation issued an alert on Friday, warning fans of the illegal sale of AFC Asian Cup 2007 tickets by certain unauthorized websites. 
 
According to the AFC, these websites are illegally selling AFC Asian Cup 2007 tickets, which are copyrighted to and owned by AFC as the official organiser of the event, despite the fact that NONE of the AFC Asian Cup 2007 tickets for the four venues are yet available for sale and in no circumstances can be resold. 
 
Furthermore, any sale of tickets can be undertaken only by AFC licensed and authorised ticket vendors. 

The AFC has demanded in a letter to the Norwegian-run website and the Australian-run website to immediately cease the sale and or distribution of AFC Asian Cup 2007 tickets on their websites and desist from all infringement of AFC”s rights in the future by March 5, 2007, failing which AFC will not hesitate to take full recourse to legal avenues to rectify the situation.