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Ticketmaster

Ticketmaster Entertainment, Inc. is an American ticket sales anddistribution company based in West Hollywood, California, USA, withoperations in many countries around the world. In 2010 it mergedwith Live Nation to become Live Nation Entertainment. As a primaryticket outlet, most US ticket sales for US venues are fulfilled at

Ticketmaster's two main fulfillment centers located in Charleston,West Virginia, and Pharr, Texas. Typically, Ticketmaster's clients(promoters) control their events, and Ticketmaster acts as an agent,selling the tickets that the clients make available to them.

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On 10 January 2008, Ticketmaster completed theacquisition of Paciolan Inc. after the deal was subjectto months of litigation over the potential breach ofantitrust laws. Paciolan is a developer of ticketing

system applications and hosted ticketing systems.Ticketmaster sold Paciolan to Comcast-Spectator in2010. In January 2009, Ticketmaster acquired a UKticket exchange site, Getmein.com. Getmein is a ticket

exchange site that allows sellers to list the tickets atwhatever price they choose. It claims to have over500,000 tickets listed at any one time.

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Privacy The company's use of personal information is more

aggressive than most: a term that users wishing to purchasefrom their website must agree to is to receive Ticketmastermarketing:

"By completing this registration form you indicate that youconsent to Ticketmaster sharing your email address and otherinformation with those who provide the event, and that youconsent to those who provide the event using your informationto contact you by email or other means to send you marketingor other messages or using or disclosing your information inother ways. By completing this registration form, you alsoindicate that you consent to Ticketmaster contacting you byemail or other means to send you marketing or other messagesand using and disclosing the information you submit, asdescribed in the Ticketmaster Privacy."

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Error messages

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Proxy ServersSome online service providers, such as AOL or Prodigy, use a

device called a proxy server. Proxy servers save copies of siteson their server rather than connecting users to the Internet orthe specific site requested. In most cases this works fine.

Using a proxy server might prevent you from purchasing ticketsbecause you need to access our ticketing system directly. If youdo not know if you are accessing the Internet through using aproxy server, contact your Internet service provider.

Access Ticketmaster.com through a direct Internet connection and

not through any service using proxy servers.

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Transaction No Longer Active

This error is caused by an interruption to thetransaction process. During the ticketbuying process, our computer or your

computer lost access to our ticketingsystems. Receiving this error means thatyour request did not make it to the ticketingsystem.

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Too Much Time Has ElapsedBefore We Received Your

InformationThis error is caused when the ticketing system releasesyour seats because the transaction took too long. Youonly have five minutes to purchase tickets afterTicketmaster.com shows you what seats are available

to you.

A slow Internet connection may cause this error. Youmight try disconnecting and then reconnecting to yourInternet provider to improve the speed.

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Issues and hearings regardinganti-competitive practices

The grunge band Pearl Jam petitioned the Antitrust Division ofthe United States Department of Justice, complaining thatTicketmaster adopted monopolistic practices and refused tolower service fees for the band's tickets Pearl Jam wanted tokeep ticket prices under $20.00, with service charges no greaterthan $1.80.

Fred Rosen of Ticketmaster refused and becauseTicketmaster had exclusive contracts with many of the largevenues in the United States they threatened to take legal actionif those contracts were broken. Pearl Jam was forced to createfrom scratch its own outdoor stadiums in rural areas to perform.Pearl Jams efforts to organize a tour without the ticket giantcollapsed which Pearl Jam said was further evidence ofTicketmasters monopoly.

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An analysis of Philips' investigative series in well known legalmonograph concluded that it was hard to imagine a legitimate

reason for their exclusive contracts with venues and contractswhich covered such a lengthy period of time.

The authors said, The pervasiveness of Ticketmaster'sexclusive agreements, coupled with their excessive durationand the manner in which they are procured, supported a findingthat Ticketmaster had engaged in anticompetitive conductunder section 2 of the Sherman Act. Members of Pearl Jamtestified on Capitol Hill on June 30 of 1994.

Pearl Jam alleged that Ticketmaster used anti-competitiveand monopolistic practices to gouge fans. Congressman Dingellafter Pearl Jams testimony before congress wrote a billrequiring full disclosure to prevent Ticketmaster from buryingescalating service fees. Pearl Jams manager said he wasgratified that Congress saw the problem as a national issue

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Later in the year the Justice Department opened aninvestigation into anti-competitive practices in the ticketindustry. It continued for close to a year until July 6 of 1995

when the Justice Department abruptly closed its antitrust probein a two-sentence press release

The announcement came shortly after the Arena Auditoriumand Coliseum Coalition organized by Fred Rosen, then head ofTicketmaster, hired the Phoenix law firm of Brown and Bain.

Investigative reporter Chuck Philips notes that the firm'spartners then occupied top posts in the anti-trust division,including the head of the anti-trust division Assistant AttorneyGeneral Anne K. Bingaman.

Brown and Bain denied any collusion and the Justice

Department concluded that there was competition among musicticketing agencies in the industry. A spokesman for Pearl Jamtold the LA Times Chuck Philips, Unfortunately, those who willbe most hurt by the Justice Departments cave-in are theconsumers of live entertainmentThe consumers are the oneswho ultimately pay for the lack of choice in the marketplace.

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Prominent lawsuits On April 28, 1997, Ticketmaster sued Microsoft over its

Sidewalk service for allegedly deep linking into Ticketmaster'ssite. The suit was settled after a two-year legal battle in whichTicketmaster claimed that linking to specific pages on anInternet site without permission was an unfair practice.

In 2003, the jam band The String Cheese Incident and itsassociated booking group, SCI Ticketing, sued Ticketmasterarguing that Ticketmaster's exclusive use contracts at most USvenues was a breach of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Thislawsuit was settled in 2004 with no publicity of the settlementterms

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In 2009, Ticketmaster faced several lawsuits across NorthAmerica, claiming they conspired to divert tickets to popularevents to its ticket brokering website TicketsNow, in which thesame tickets were sold at premium prices.

This also raised the ire of musician Bruce Springsteen, whosaid he was 'furious' at Ticketmaster,[38] and "...the one thingthat would make the current ticket situation even worse for thefan than it is now would be Ticketmaster and Live Nation

coming up with a single system, thereby returning us to a nearmonopoly situation in music ticketing"

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