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As I am sure most of the world is aware of the monopoly that Ticketmaster have regarding events, I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how to defeat them little by little or otherwise.

I have seen many campaigns, including one from before live nation was formed, in an attempt to prevent it. The juggernaut that it is, easily bats away any attempt to take it on, they are not even afraid of the US government trying to break up the monopoly.

They have been caught many times globally breaking and bending laws, and have a very unethical form of practice. Ticket prices just keep going up along with nonsense charges.

Would love to see ideas to help defeat them.

EDIT - Would lobbying politicians help? (Not sure if lobbying is the correct word). I mean, would having a pre-written letter template being sent to the correct politicians work if a load of people were to sign it and send it in, similar to the fightchatcontrol.eu site.

Which politicians to email?

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[–] turkalino@lemmy.yachts 6 points 3 days ago (8 children)

It’s not really up to the celebrities, I’m afraid. The venues themselves have exclusivity deals with LiveNation, and pretty much every venue that’s at least of medium size has this deal. I guess you could say “then don’t perform at those venues” but imagine Metallica performing in a 100-person venue… that’s kind of unfair to all the people that want to see them

[–] DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world -2 points 2 days ago (5 children)

You don't get that they can choose who what and where to go. They could make a shitty no name stadium a good one. There are no excuses for rich privileged children. Which unfortunately is most of them.

[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The shitty no name stadium probably also has an exclusive contract with LiveNation. Or else it just doesn't host live performances in general, in which case it simply doesn't have the infrastructure to host a huge band.

[–] humanoidchaos@lemmy.cif.su 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

in which case it simply doesn’t have the infrastructure to host a huge band.

What infrastructure? Amps? That's a non-issue.

[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Business and personel infrastructure.

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