Senators Introduce ‘Fans First’ Bill Intended to Reform Live-Event Ticketing System::Senators John Cornyn, Amy Klobuchar and others introduced the ‘Fans First’ Act to help “address flaws in the current live event ticketing system.’
They should honestly stop screwing around and break up this obvious monopoly. That’s the reason they get away with all of the stuff they get away with. Should have been clear at the merger it was an anticompetitive move and never should have been allowed to get to where it is in the first place.
The same people trying to slap LiveNation/TM on the wrist now are the ones who allowed them to be gigantic anyways.
There are like a dozen different monopolies that control most of our lives, its just like the late 1800s all over again. Worthless governments allow worthless rich people to own all of the profits.
In less than 30 years, live Nation has amassed over 300 music venues, likely many of you largest local venues. They have cornered the market on ticket sales, dictating how things will be done to even non owned venues. What could possibly be anticompetitive or conflicting??
It would solve so many problems if the default response to mergers was to deny them. Unless companies can show an exceptional benefit to the public in allowing them to merge it shouldn’t be allowed.
Live Nation’s only mistake here was not sharing enough of their profits with legislators. This is America, for fucks’ sake.
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Little issues should not be ignored because there exists a big other issue. There will always be a bigger issue, so with that reasoning, the right time to do something about the little issue, would be never.
Working on smaller issues also doesn’t stop anyone from working on the bigger issues, processes like this can happen in parallel.
It’s baffling to see how society has evolved into a mindset where everything is viewed in black and white. It’s as if the concept that two things can be true or occur simultaneously is inconceivable. We have US Senators genuinely attempting to contribute to causes that, while they might not be of utmost importance, certainly have the potential to enhance our lives. Yet, here you are, implying that we should withhold our support. What is your suggestion, then? To simply wait in the hope that someone else might come up with a slightly better solution for something else? We shouldn’t so easily inhibit progress.
They’re senators. They can literally call up the FTC (who should be investigating this) and complain. They can increase the FTCs budget as well. They can subpoena the head of Ticketmaster and ask them questions directly.
They can also introduce legislation, which they have done here.
I think the divide is bigger on more important issues, so compromise and bipartisanship are more likely on less headline-grabbing issues.
There’s a million other things you could have done that would have been more useful than posting your comment but here you are.
