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The Federal Trade Commission announced a new rule on Tuesday to ban hidden fees for concert tickets in a move seeking to address one of the myriad complaints music fans have toward the concert business. The new ruling — which also affects other businesses like hotels and Airbnb — doesn’t …

Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal sent a letter to Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan on Friday, requesting that the consumer protection agency more consistently enforce the nearly decade-old legislation that was passed to try and stop scalpers from using bots to corner the market on concert tickets. The Better Online …

Robert Smith opened up about the notorious stance he took against predatory ticketing practices for the Cure‘s North America Tour last year, recalling his goals to keep tickets cheap as well as his viral Twitter threads calling out the ticketing business from Ticketmaster to scalpers to other artists. “It was …

Oasis are sticking to their promise to crack down on resale tickets for their reunion shows, with the band preparing to invalidate about 50,000 tickets sold on the secondary market, according to the BBC. The reunion tour’s promoters, Live Nation and SJM, said they would start canceling the offending tickets …

Ticketmaster is facing a class action lawsuit over the massive data breach the company suffered from the hacker group ShinyHunters earlier this year. Several firms have filed class action suits against Ticketmaster in recent months since the data breach first came to light earlier this year, the most recent of …

When it comes to the modern model of live music ticketing services, Robert Smith is disinterested in framing recent practices as being complicated. Last year, when the Cure announced their first U.S. tour in seven years, the bandopted out ofTicketmaster‘sdynamic pricing modeland used non-transferable tickets toavoid scalpingby both the seller …

Oasis’ reunion predictably overloaded ticketing platforms over the weekend as millions of fans queued for tickets, putting the perennially challenging ticketing marketplace at center stage again. Disgruntled fans felt their beloved band sold out in more ways than one, using a controversial “dynamic pricing” method that overshadowed the rest of …

The U.K. Government will investigate Ticketmaster and other online sellers’ dynamic pricing strategy after Oasis reunion tour tickets nearly tripled in price due to the large demand of fans trying to nab seats to the summer 2025 shows. After millions of fans endured long virtual wait times and multiple site …

Tickets for the Oasis reunion shows in the U.K. went on sale to the public Saturday and, as expected given previous in-demand events, things did not go smoothly for many fans. Following a pre-sale Friday and a stern warning about reselling tickets on the secondary market, the majority of tickets …

Ten more states have joined the Department of Justice‘s antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation, according to an amended complaint the DOJ filed Monday morning, marking a total of 39 states as well as the District of Columbia to have sued the concert and ticketing giant over the DOJ’s monopoly claims. …