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TAYLOR SWIFT TICKETS!

2023/6/7
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Michael Onger: Ticketmaster与Live Nation的合并导致Ticketmaster成为一家垄断公司，控制着票价和艺术家。这导致了演唱会门票系统的混乱，许多粉丝无法买到Taylor Swift演唱会的门票。 Moe Tasik和Krista Brown：Ticketmaster通过向场馆支付独家使用权费用，并将费用转嫁给消费者，从而建立了垄断地位。他们还通过收取服务费来弥补向场馆支付的巨额费用，并预付巨额服务费给场馆。此外，他们向大型摇滚乐队推广商提供无追索权贷款，以帮助他们竞标最昂贵的演出，这是一种反竞争策略。Ticketmaster的掠夺性定价策略的合法性存在争议，但在80年代以后，法院对掠夺性定价的限制有所放松，导致其成为硅谷的普遍商业模式。1991年，Ticketmaster收购Ticketron，获得了90%的市场份额。 Pearl Jam乐队反对Ticketmaster的高票价和垄断地位，试图绕过Ticketmaster进行巡演，但最终失败了。Ticketmaster利用北美演唱会推广商协会来执行其定价策略。司法部和国会对Ticketmaster进行了调查，但最终不了了之。SFX公司在演唱会推广领域建立了垄断地位，并与Ticketmaster达成了独家协议。Robert Sillerman迅速收购了20家独立的演唱会推广公司，建立了SFX的垄断地位。Ticketmaster和SFX在90年代初达成了独家协议，并在2010年正式合并。2009年经济衰退期间，Ticketmaster和Live Nation的合并得到了批准，这与当时的经济环境有关。 Moe Tasik & Krista Brown: Ticketmaster 通过各种反竞争手段，例如向场馆支付独家协议费用、收取高额服务费、向大型演出商提供贷款等，逐步建立起其在票务行业的垄断地位。 他们利用这种垄断地位控制票价，损害消费者利益。 Pearl Jam 乐队的反抗虽然未能成功，但也揭示了 Ticketmaster 的垄断行为。 当前的反垄断环境与过去不同，公众对 Ticketmaster 的关注度更高，这为打破其垄断提供了新的机会。 Krista Brown: Ticketmaster 的垄断行为不仅影响了音乐行业，也关系到公众对监管机构的信任。 公众对 Ticketmaster 的不满情绪高涨，这为监管机构采取行动提供了民意基础。 此次事件的重要性在于，它可能恢复公众对监管机构的信心。

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The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing following the Ticketmaster meltdown during the Taylor Swift Eras Tour presale, focusing on the potential antitrust case against Live Nation and Ticketmaster due to their merger in 2010.

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On January 24, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on Ticketmaster. The hearing followed in the aftermath Taylor Swift's "Eras Tour" tickets going on sale last November, a debacle during which Ticketmaster broke down during the presale, leaving millions of fans without tickets. Senators convened to hear testimony from a top Live Nation executive (Ticketmaster’s parent company), competitors in ticketing and concert promotion, antitrust experts, and a musician. The hearing represented a step toward a potential antitrust case against Live Nation and Ticketmaster, which merged in 2010. 

Moe Tkacik) and Krista Brown) are researchers at the American Economic Liberties Project, a left-leaning think tank which is part of a consortium that is pushing for the DOJ to break up the Live Nation monopoly. In February Micah Loewinger spoke to them about an article) they co-wrote for The American Prospect about Ticketmaster’s forty-plus-year-history, and how the company came to dominate, and in some ways reshape, the live music landscape.

This is a segment from our February 3, 2023 show, *Too Big to Fail?).*

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