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If Live Nation-Ticketmaster is not a monopoly then there is no such thing as a monopoly.
Violating antitrust law is illegal.
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You don't violate federal law just by being the only company to sell canine banana hammocks.
I would like to fund the justice department’s GoFundMe
Here is their site - treasurydirect.gov
Did DOJ make a shout-out to Pearl Jam? https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/pearl-jam-taki... (1995)
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I'm theory, prosecutions are a civil service function, not a political function. Changes in administration might change the leadership and what areas are prioritized, but once you have a case, it really shouldn't matter who is in office. In theory.
What theory is this from, some sort of administrative state theory? This has never been the case in any executive branch that I'm aware of.
Jeez, How did Govt take this long to break up Live Nation. How?
The Administration is bound by the Due Care clause, but that's a huge window, so you can just intentionally create a dysfunctional and incompetent group of people and give them the responsibility for enforcing this nations laws. This Administration, although it would hate to actually admit it out loud, actually put someone competent in charge of the agency with this enforcement responsibility and then.. to everyone's…
I 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.
Recently, I bought tickets through their web page, and the seat hold timed out prematurely, making me reselect seats. The tickets had been on sale for weeks, but in that 60 second window, scalpers just happened to buy the exact block I wanted out of 100’s of available seats. Of course, ticket master owns some of the scalper companies. Despite the blatant false advertising / auction fixing, I have no way to prove the…
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> 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.
Would the Adobe + Figma merge failure count?
https://www.reuters.com/technology/adobe-figma-terminate-20-...
> On December 18, 2023, Figma and Adobe both announced they were mutually agreeing to abandon their merger,[17][18] with Adobe citing that there was "no clear path to receive necessary regulatory approvals from the European Commission and the UK Competition and Markets Authority."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figma#Attempted_acquisition_by...
Only if you count UK/EU regulators.
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Here is their site - treasurydirect.gov
Treasury Direct is for stuff like savings bonds. If you want to donate , it's https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/public/gifts-to-government.h... , but they're not directed donations.
If Live Nation-Ticketmaster is not a monopoly then there is no such thing as a monopoly.
But monopolies are not illegal. Violating antitrust law is illegal. --- You don't violate federal law just by being the only company to sell canine banana hammocks.