US rock band Green Day headlines this year's T in the Park

People who go to Scotland's T in the Park festival in July will have their personal details entered into a barcode on the ticket.

Earlier this year the festival's head of security, Patrick Mossom, admitted he could not tell the difference between genuine tickets and forgeries.

All 130,000 tickets for the event were sold over four days in February.

Festival-goers, who will be watching performances by Green Day, Foo Fighters and Keane, paid up to �82 each.

DF Concerts chief executive Geoff Ellis said: "Every year we are contacted by music fans that have bought tickets through touts which have either never turned up or are not genuine and there is nothing we can do to help them.

Tickets to this year's festival sold out in four days, at up to �82 each

"Hopefully this new system will be a deterrent in stopping fans from taking this risk because now they know there's no way they will get into the event without a ticket that is uniquely bar-coded."

Mr Ellis said people without tickets should not "try their luck" to gain entry because they would "only be disappointed".

In March the trial of alleged forger Mark Weston, in Perth, collapsed after T in the Park security head Patrick Mossom admitted he could not differentiate forgeries from genuine tickets.