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Live Nation and Ticketmaster have been accused of allowing scalpers to hoover up millions of tickets so they can be resold on Ticketmaster’s own resale platforms at a steep markups to customers. A new lawsuit brought by the Federal Trade Commission and seven states accuses the country’s biggest concert promoter …

President Donald Trump signed an executive order today that takes aim at ticket scalpers and “rent-seeking behaviors surrounding the ticketing industry.” The order denounced scalpers for using “bots and other unfair means to acquire large quantities of face-value tickets” and reselling them at “an enormous markup on the secondary market, …