Yusuf Islam cancels New York show in touting row

Cat Stevens, aka Yusuf Islam, has cancelled a show in New York, basically in protest at local laws governing ticketing which, he says, helps the touts, resulting in tickets for his show trading at vastly marked up prices online. Islam told fans: "I have been a longtime supporter of paperless tickets to my shows worldwide and avoiding scalpers [touts]. Unfortunately NY has a state law that requires all tickets sold for shows in NYC to be paper, enabling them to be bought and sold at inflated prices".