Aseahawkfan wrote:I'm doubtful it will even succeed. So far the Biden admin has officials talking big about corporate break ups and lawsuits of this kind, not sure they have won or been successful with a single one. Far more bark than bite with these lawsuits a bit like the Dems and Trump and all their big talk about getting him when not a single legal action taken has done much to slow him down.
Dems love lawsuits. Love to use the legal system to attack. Never seem to be able to win against anyone but small mom and pops that can't afford expensive legal defense and sometimes not even them. Even the Dems tend to hire expensive private lawyers when they're in trouble to beat government lawyers.
Government lawsuits like this seem like a whole lot of posturing with not much getting done. I can't remember the last time the government successfully slowed down a company with a break up. Maybe back with Ma Bell or the Railroads? Even the anti-monopoly lawsuits against Microsoft were total failures.
Aseahawkfan wrote:I don't know. I find it hard to believe myself. What artists could they control? Taylor Swift isn't going to let anyone control her. She's one of the biggest in the world. She could sell tickets out of a van in the middle of a field she rented and sell the place out. Not sure many artists would want that kind of bad PR.
So not real sure who filed the suit or what evidence they have. But if the company were doing it, it will come out in the wash and probably lead to a fine or something.
NorthHawk wrote:I don't know if it happens where you are, but here we often have a sole outsource for tickets and when they go on sale they are all sold out within 2 minutes. Then magically, thousands turn up on their other pages for sale at 4, maybe 5 or more times the original selling price. That's the problem with a monopoly and if similar things are happening where you are, it wouldn't surprise me if there weren't laws in place to prevent usurious practices.
NorthHawk wrote:Up here it was actually the orginal sellers be it Ticketmaster or one of the others who had exclusive rights to sell tickets, not the scalpers so the company became the scalpers.
NorthHawk wrote:Money makes people do things that aren't in character with their normal selves, so anything could happen as we are talking about a large sum in total.
The DOJ must have something that is suspicious and worthy of advancing a case even if they are eventually not successful in their lawsuit.
Aseahawkfan wrote:A lot of people in WA buy as many tickets to popular events as allowed to scalp them. Some are sport events or concerts, but some are PAX (Penny Arcade Expo) or other popular events like Sakuracon. I have no idea what ticket service they go through and there are limits on what an individual can buy, so the upside is limited.
yoder wrote:Y'all hear about this, massive data breach.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ticketmaster-breach-shinyhunters-560-million-customers/
Edit: Check your bank accounts!
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