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US Sues Google & Taylor Swift Ticket Fiasco

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Live Nation's Pre-Sale Fiasco

The president and CFO of Live Nation, Joe Berktold, blamed bots who buy up tickets in large quantities for the pre-sale fiasco. We were then hit with three times the amount of bot traffic that we'd ever experienced. For the first time in 400 verified fan on sales, they came after our verified fan password servers as well. Jen: The problem at the core of it was you, the Department of Justice, allowed Live Nation to buy Ticketmaster. And that's just a big conflict of interest.

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