Does Ticketmaster have a stranglehold on concert ticketing — or is it just ‘bringing joy’?

In a downtown Manhattan courtroom connected Monday, lawyers for the US Justice Department and 40 authorities and territory attorneys wide warned a jury that the performance manufacture was being squeezed by a monopolist: Live Nation-Tickemaster. After amassing dominance implicit ticketing and artists' usage of ample amphitheaters, pb DOJ counsel David Dahlquist alleged, Live Nation constructed a "flywheel" of powerfulness that forced venue customers to enactment wrong its ecosystem. It threatened oregon retaliated against them erstwhile they considered leaving. To adjacent effort to triumph business, Dahlquist said, ticketing rivals needed to connection "retaliation insurance" to venues disquieted …

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