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Re:Ask HN: Why is it so hard to disrupt Ticketmaster? by pedalpete on Thursday November 17, 2022 @04:40PM (#33646193)
It isn't just that the venues have exclusive contracts, its also that if they break the exclusivity contract with TicketMaster, they can't use a competing service for 2 years (though I can't find proof of this, when I worked in venues 20 years ago, this was the case).

SongKick took a stab at breaking TicketMaster, as did PearlJam, and a few others. Everyone has failed so far.

This is clearly monopolistic and harmful to concert goers, and StubHub (also a Ticketmaster/LiveNation company) was fined a few years ago for selling tickets at a premium which were never made available to the public.

The whole industry is so shady, it's pathetic that this is allowed to continue.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is it so hard to disrupt Ticketmaster? by KptMarchewa on Thursday November 17, 2022 @04:58PM (#33646444)
> It isn't just that the venues have exclusive contracts, its also that if they break the exclusivity contract with TicketMaster, they can't use a competing service for 2 years (though I can't find proof of this, when I worked in venues 20 years ago, this was the case).

How is that legal under Sherman Act?

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Re:Ask HN: Why is it so hard to disrupt Ticketmaster? by georgeplusplus on Thursday November 17, 2022 @05:23PM (#33646756)
It's probably not along with many other industries that sorely need the Sherman act, but the DOJ would have to bring charges and sometimes it's not politically popular especially during periods of bad economy to do so
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Re:Ask HN: Why is it so hard to disrupt Ticketmaster? by KptMarchewa on Friday November 18, 2022 @10:06PM (#33666427)
Well, it actually happened right now. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-opens-antitrust-probe-in...
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Re:Ask HN: Why is it so hard to disrupt Ticketmaster? by georgeplusplus on Saturday November 19, 2022 @07:31PM (#33676700)
Happy to see.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is it so hard to disrupt Ticketmaster? by pedalpete on Sunday November 20, 2022 @01:06AM (#33678751)
This isn't the first time LN/TM have been been through this process.

Ian Hogarth of SongKick describes how he first fought the anti-trust.

https://twitter.com/soundboy/status/1593549611431493632

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