US Justice Department to seek breakup of Live Nation-Ticketmaster
1–10 of 319 posts
Re: US Justice Department to seek breakup of Live Nation-Ticketmaster
#2Re: US Justice Department to seek breakup of Live Nation-Ticketmaster
#3Finally. As someone who is active in the local music scene, I’ve spent thousands on junk fees over the years. Not sure why it has taken this long.
Re: US Justice Department to seek breakup of Live Nation-Ticketmaster
#4Finally. As someone who is active in the local music scene, I’ve spent thousands on junk fees over the years. Not sure why it has taken this long.
Because we all but entirely stopped enforcing anti-trust in the 80s :-(
Re: US Justice Department to seek breakup of Live Nation-Ticketmaster
#5I am so hopeful that this happens. I was comparing the fees to see a band in the US or EU recently based on their tour dates and it was insane what US ticket prices came out to be. It was ~$54 for a ticket in the US because of all the junk fees and just 8 euros for other places in the EU.
Re: US Justice Department to seek breakup of Live Nation-Ticketmaster
#6Finally. As someone who is active in the local music scene, I’ve spent thousands on junk fees over the years. Not sure why it has taken this long.
Because we all but entirely stopped enforcing anti-trust in the 80s :-(
> Because we all but entirely stopped enforcing anti-trust in the 80s
My kids have never known a time without the DoJ rubber-stamping every monopoly-building merger it could.
Re: US Justice Department to seek breakup of Live Nation-Ticketmaster
#7What's the typical turn time for a case like this from the time it is filed to the time it is actually in front of a judge/jury? This particular administration only has a guaranteed relevance of about 7 months. It could get extended, or it could get replaced and then cases like this would most likely get dropped.
So, why bring it now?
Re: US Justice Department to seek breakup of Live Nation-Ticketmaster
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because we all but entirely stopped enforcing anti-trust in the 80s :-(
> Because we all but entirely stopped enforcing anti-trust in the 80s My kids have never known a time without the DoJ rubber-stamping every monopoly-building merger it could.
Yeah, it’s not just failing to break up monopolies, it’s allowing mergers to go through that would’ve been laughably doomed to fail to pass regulatory muster in earlier decades.
Re: US Justice Department to seek breakup of Live Nation-Ticketmaster
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because we all but entirely stopped enforcing anti-trust in the 80s :-(
> Because we all but entirely stopped enforcing anti-trust in the 80s My kids have never known a time without the DoJ rubber-stamping every monopoly-building merger it could.
I can offer this napkin to wipe off the trickle down if you need it
Re: US Justice Department to seek breakup of Live Nation-Ticketmaster
#10Finally. As someone who is active in the local music scene, I’ve spent thousands on junk fees over the years. Not sure why it has taken this long.
if( $Voters_Apathetic && ( $Political_Donations_From_Monopolists > $Political_Donations_From_Antimonopolists ) )
then {
...