About fucking time
Finally
Only 20 years too late.
90’s kids… “more like 30”
Here I was just thinking to myself that I can’t imagine why it has taken so long. It’s not like this is a new problem in any way.
ETA: It just occurred to me that nobody cared until Taylor Swift was involved.
“I can’t believe we hat women more than we love capitalism”
(also the fuck is ETA supposed to mean in this context?)
Edited to add
E: or Edit: > estimated time of arrival.
It wasn’t so much Taylor Swift, as it was a famously passionate fan base why couldn’t get tickets. If this was the 90’s, and Micheal Jackson’s die hards couldn’t get tickets to the Dangerous Tour, you best bet that people would be beating down lawmakers doors.
Why the fuck hasn’t anybody done this yet, at any point in the last 10-20 years?
Ticketmaster is the absolute textbook definition of an abusive monopoly in every way. They make it impossible to use anyone else, on either the fan or musician side, so that they can charge way way more than how much would be competitive. Hopefully the lawsuit takes 5 minutes “Your honor I move that they clearly have a monopoly and be sentenced to death” “Granted, fuck 'em, so ordered.”
Pearl Jam tried to take them on a while back. The problem with monopolies is they’re incredibly powerful. They got that way by lobbying (read: bribing), and the more they succeed, they more they’re likely to succeed. Their power grows exponentially, basically. So by the time they get to be a monopoly, they’re basically super monopolies because they have the government in their pocket.
Why the fuck hasn’t anybody done this yet, at any point in the last 10-20 years?
Oh look, it’s the American government doing what the American government does
I’m actually surprised at how little they spend on lobbying, even with the recent uptick. It must be the other thing, you know, our representatives are shareholders.
What does this have to do with Technology?
Yes!
Hope we see something about “fees that get added on need to be advertised with the base price, and if it gets added to every purchase, it is part of the base price”.
Did the lobby money run out?
Congress got hit by the most powerful lobbing group of all. The daughters of thousands of public servants who couldn’t get a VIP ticket to the Eras Tour.
It wasn’t congress, DoJ is executive branch
Good point. We’re idiots.
Right? Not surprising that it took a billionaire artist for them to notice and take action.
IMHO, it wasn’t her wealth. They’re like Micheal Jackson fans from the early 90’s, or Beatles fans from the 60’s. Simply denying them a ticket to her biggest tour was all it took.
No, the Biden admin is just doing a lot of good things like this. Or in this case, at least the current DoJ.
(Awaiting all the replies about what they’re NOT doing, because nothing is ever allowed to be good here)
