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The confirmation of the Ticketmaster data-security breach comes a little over a week after the Justice Department sued Live Nation on antitrust grounds on May 23, seeking to break up the company ...
“We’re here not because Ticketmaster’s conduct is inconvenient or frustrating,” said Attorney General Merrick Garland at a press conference. “We’re here because it’s illegal.”
United States, et al. v. Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. and Ticketmaster Entertainment, LLC is an antitrust lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and twenty-nine states and Washington, D.C., against entertainment company Live Nation Entertainment and its subsidiary Ticketmaster, following the Taylor Swift–Ticketmaster controversy in 2022.
Ticketmaster specifically dominates the market for live events in the United States—so much so that on May 23, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Live Nation and Ticketmaster, accusing ...
In early 1997, Ticketmaster sued Microsoft because its Sidewalk.com website was linking to pages on Ticketmaster about particular events. [9] [10] The lawsuit, Ashley Dunn wrote in The New York Times , "sent a shiver of anxiety through the online world since it struck at one of the most basic aspects of the Web – the freedom and openness of ...
Taylor Swift performing on the Eras Tour in 2023. Ticketmaster received criticism for mishandling the U.S. ticket sale of the tour.. The American ticket sales platform Ticketmaster and its parent company Live Nation Entertainment were met with widespread public criticism and political scrutiny over blunders in selling tickets to the 2023 United States leg of the Eras Tour, the sixth concert ...
Ticketmaster has not returned multiple requests for comment, and the filing did not confirm the scale of the hack. The potential hack adds to a tense year for the ticketing giant.
The intense fan reactions caused several members of U.S. Congress to highlight the merger of Ticketmaster and its parent company Live Nation Entertainment, [136] and the U.S. Department of Justice to open an investigation into Live Nation–Ticketmaster, [137] while several fans sued the companies for intentional deception, fraud, price fixing ...