The US Department Of Justice Planning On Suing Ticketmaster?!

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🗓️ 23 May 2024

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0:00.0	The Bird Show.
0:02.0	Time to get buzzed on the hot goss from Hollywood with Abby.
0:06.0	It's the Bird Show's entertainment bus.
0:08.4	Justice might finally be served to Live Nation and Ticketmaster.
0:13.5	If you don't know what's going on with this,
0:15.5	I was in the front lines of the war,
0:17.9	the great Ticket Master War of 2022,
0:20.6	trying to get my Taylor Swift tickets. The Swifties were mad when so many of us
0:26.3	got kicked off of the platform when we were trying to get tickets to see our
0:29.4	favorite artist who hadn't been on tour in five years. So now the Justice Department and several states
0:35.2	are expected to file a lawsuit as early as today
0:39.2	citing antitrust violations in part due to the market dominance that
0:45.0	Ticketmaster has on ticket sales when it comes to going to go see
0:48.6	concerts and other live events.
0:50.1	It does feel like just a massive conglomerate.
0:52.2	100%?
0:53.0	They immersed, right?
0:54.0	Are they basically the same company?
0:55.0	So Live Nation has a sector of their company, which is Ticketmaster.
1:00.0	So Live Nation is over Ticketmaster.
1:02.0	So CBS News actually was looking into this and
1:05.5	that they actually found that they were looking into Ticketmaster before the
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