Instead of taking the posters down, they stick “cancelled” banners across them.
Brillant!
What a genius idea!
Of course, after a few weeks, when the public figures out what’s really happening, this technique will not be quite as effective.
Well, maybe they can put something else up. Something like a sticker stating an outrageous price on tickets. Or they can go to the event and charge the promoter for the cost of removal. Or go cancel the event for real.
I love it!
These options aren’t available. Promoters can make sure there’s no direct link back to them from the casual cash-in-hand workers actually putting up posters. And they certainly don’t have the power to cancel an event on these grounds.
They can’t do that. What’s to stop the cranky old man up the street from putting up posters just so the nightclub down the street gets shut down? Or just a whacko fan trying to be “helpful” but whose actions are not in any way sanctioned by the people running the event?
The no postering bi-laws exist, but they’re practically unenforceable.
Ooh, it’s a nice idea, but, yes, I imagine that people will pretty quickly take to ignoring the “cancelled” signs, and 'phoning up the venue to confirm, or checking online or something. Still, not bad thinking from my dimwitted council. 
Those arguments sound like the ones promoters and venues use to wriggle out of their responsibilities. I say make them responsible for the pollution and let THEM police the overzealous fans or cranky old men. If you make the bar owner responsible for the pollutions that his bar is creating, he will take steps to prevent it.
Yes, I can see a whole bunch of dirty tricks being used by competing bars. But I’d rather let them work it out while the streets stayed clean.
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I’m not saying they are anything other than that. But they’re legally-sound ones: you can’t punish a promoter without proof that it was their intention to illegally flypost.
Then change the law to make it them legally unsound arguments.