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Live Nation To Challenge Ticketmaster, Sell Fans More Junk

Live Nation To Challenge Ticketmaster, Sell Fans More Junk

The nation’s largest concert promoter, Live Nation, is ditching Ticketmaster to build its own ticketing system. Live Nation may not be as soul-crushingly evil as Ticketmaster—we hear they issue refunds!—but their goal in breaking away is to squeeze more profit from customers by hawking “additional merchandise.”