It's part of life.
The only people who have the ability to eliminate it are the acts themselves through insisting on strict ticket purchase limits and requiring the purchaser name to match the ID of the user (one per group of 4 typically). That's the policy Radiohead followed and it did a great job limiting the secondary market. The problem is that people who really want to go then get shut out if they can't be at a computer the second tickets go on sale, or if they happen to click a fraction of a second too late. There are also issues with the logistics of a policy like that in a large venue, the line for Radiohead at the Prudential Center was ridiculous. Another factor is the willingness of venues to go along with it, that Radiohead show was in the Prudential Center because MSG refused to work with that policy.
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