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Friday, April 10, 2026
Live Nation Antitrust Case Narrows as Plaintiffs Drop Standalone Exclusive-Dealing Claim
TicketNews: The federal antitrust case against Live Nation and Ticketmaster narrowed again Tuesday, as the plaintiffs agreed to dismiss one of the claims that had survived Judge Arun Subramanian’s pretrial winnowing of the case, trimming the issues further as the trial moves toward its endgame.
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Max A
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Unfortunately this entire lawsuit feels like a case of “put your hands up, monopoly” “we’re not a monopoly we swear!” The ruling keeps getting narrower and narrower–things that make sense and are true and sound arguments seem to get knocked down. The one motion that just got knocked down after it had already survived summary judgement claimed that Ticketmaster’s automatic partnership with venues restricted competition. Seems a little monopolistic to me for Ticketmaster to automatically be the first option for almost every single large entertainment venue, but okay. “the plaintiffs had failed to prove the relevant “major concert venues” ticketing markets” okay. I could probably prove that Ticketmaster has a monopoly over major concert venues myself if I had to. All it takes is attempting to get tickets in literally every major performing center in the entire country. Our justice system is truly such an absolute joke oh my god.
Just another instance of the federal goverment squabbling. Every time one of these anti-trust cases goes to court or to subpena it really feels like they basically are doing it for show. When has a company actually had repercussions for monopolistic activity. Or even for crimes in general? For years Shell the gas station company got away with paying of the nigerian goverment to actively supress and silence protestors, even going so far as to literally execute some protestors in broad day light. All paid for by Shell, and our federal goverment fined them. At this point there's no reason for these anti trust cases. They don't do anything anyway. They never have. They never will. What should really happen is that we need to have access to more public records. So we can do something about it. Not buy their product. Take buisness else where. Hurt them where it counts. That way they actually might have an impact for what they've done rather then something that is basically them getting away scott free.
2 comments:
Unfortunately this entire lawsuit feels like a case of “put your hands up, monopoly” “we’re not a monopoly we swear!” The ruling keeps getting narrower and narrower–things that make sense and are true and sound arguments seem to get knocked down. The one motion that just got knocked down after it had already survived summary judgement claimed that Ticketmaster’s automatic partnership with venues restricted competition. Seems a little monopolistic to me for Ticketmaster to automatically be the first option for almost every single large entertainment venue, but okay. “the plaintiffs had failed to prove the relevant “major concert venues” ticketing markets” okay. I could probably prove that Ticketmaster has a monopoly over major concert venues myself if I had to. All it takes is attempting to get tickets in literally every major performing center in the entire country. Our justice system is truly such an absolute joke oh my god.
Just another instance of the federal goverment squabbling. Every time one of these anti-trust cases goes to court or to subpena it really feels like they basically are doing it for show. When has a company actually had repercussions for monopolistic activity. Or even for crimes in general? For years Shell the gas station company got away with paying of the nigerian goverment to actively supress and silence protestors, even going so far as to literally execute some protestors in broad day light. All paid for by Shell, and our federal goverment fined them. At this point there's no reason for these anti trust cases. They don't do anything anyway. They never have. They never will. What should really happen is that we need to have access to more public records. So we can do something about it. Not buy their product. Take buisness else where. Hurt them where it counts. That way they actually might have an impact for what they've done rather then something that is basically them getting away scott free.
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