Ticketmaster, FTC and Taylor Swift
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The FTC has sued a ticket touting company that uses dubious tactics to access tickets, including using 49 Ticketmaster accounts to buy 273 tickets for one Taylor Swift show that had a six-tickets-per-person limit.
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Digital Music News on MSNFTC Sues Alleged Ticket Scalpers Under the BOTS Act, Says They ‘Regularly Circumvented’ Ticketmaster Security Measures
Amid intense ticket-price scrutiny – and a DOJ antitrust action against Live Nation – the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is officially suing several alleged scalpers under the BOTS Act. The FTC submitted the high-stakes complaint to a Maryland federal court today,
Opinion: Former Deputy Associate Attorney General Brian Pandya explains why the DOJ and FTC agreeing to cap the price of resale tickets would hurt their case proving Ticketmaster is cornering the live event market.