The top Democrats at the Senate and House Judiciary Committees, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) are hosting an unofficial “hearing” to attack the Trump Administration for settling the Live Nation-Ticketmaster case on Monday. According to Capital Forum, it will feature California AG Rob Bonta and fired Trump antitrust official Roger Alford.
NEW YORK (AP) — A jury has found that concert giant Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary had a harmful monopoly over big concert venues, dealing the company a loss in a lawsuit over claims brought by dozens of U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
NEW YORK — Incendiary internal messages in which a Live Nation employee mocks customers as “so stupid” and says the company is “robbing them blind, baby” have been made public as over two dozen states weigh whether to continue their antitrust trial against the entertainment giant and its subsidiary Ticketmaster.
Republican state attorneys general are blasting the Justice Department’s abrupt settlement with Live Nation and Ticketmaster, warning the deal leaves the entertainment giant’s dominance largely intact and vowing to continue the antitrust fight.
The FTC has filed a bombshell lawsuit against Ticketmaster, accusing the online ticket broker of raking in profits through excessive fees and turning a blind eye to bots illegally reselling millions of tickets to customers.
The FTC is probing whether Live Nation’s Ticketmaster has done enough to prevent illegal ticket resales by bots on its platform. Ticket bots are a constant plague on consumers simply hoping to buy event and concert tickets.
Ticketmaster is under fire again, this time by the FTC, which has accused the ticketing giant of turning a blind eye while scalpers gouge fans and then trying to twist President Trump’s ticket reform push into a scheme to grab even more power.
Rest assured, the CNN Gestapo are only getting started in their campaign to kill this tour.
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department filed a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and parent company Live Nation Entertainment on Thursday, accusing them of running an illegal monopoly over live events in America — squelching competition and driving up prices for fans.
President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is operating a “concierge service” similar to Ticketmaster so that illegal aliens can be quickly released into the United States, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) says.
The robber barons at Ticketmaster charged some Cure fans more in service fees than the cost of the ticket.
Bruce Springsteen likes to boast about his working class roots, but fans are now abandoning The Boss in droves as ticket prices for his upcoming tour have soared as high $5,000.
Admission for socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) anti-capitalists event can cost up to $100 on the much-maligned Ticketmaster.
NEW YORK (AP) — Swifties, your girl has spoke on the Ticketmaster meltdown. Taylor Swift posted a story Friday on Instagram expressing her anger and frustration over the hours spent by fans trying to buy tickets for her tour next year.
Greg Maffei, the CEO of Ticketmaster’s largest shareholder, Liberty Media, blamed bots for the ticket-selling company’s struggle to get Taylor Swift concert tickets into the hands of over one million “verified fans.”
Bruce Springsteen’s longtime manager Jon Landau is now defending those $4,300 ticket prices.
“Bruce Springsteen does not care about you,” writes NJ.com, an outlet straight out of Springsteen’s home state.
Consumers’ Research, an educational nonprofit dedicated to consumer information, launched an initiative targeting Coca-Cola for its “woke” hypocrisy as part of their larger ongoing seven-figure campaign.
Ticketmaster recently agreed to pay $10 million in criminal fines after they gained unlawful access to its competitor’s private data. In 2013, a former Ticketmaster executive reportedly encouraged an employee that had previously worked for a competitor to access the competitor’s internal computer data.
Australia’s Qantas has become the first airline to insist all its passengers must be vaccinated against coronavirus.
Ticketmaster, the nation’s largest online ticket-selling service, is preparing a plan that would ask ticket-buyers to verify and reveal that they have been vaccinated for the coronavirus before they’re allowed to attend events.
Ticketmaster works with ticket scalpers who quickly buy up tickets using hundreds of accounts and then sell them for inflated prices, according to an investigative report.
Event ticketing giant Ticketmaster has partnered with a facial recognition software developer in an effort to create a concert experience that doesn’t require a physical or digital ticket at all — just your face.
