Senator Amy Klobuchar has said the issues that cropped up were not new and potentially stemmed from consolidation in the ticketing industry
The president of Ticketmaster parent Live Nation, Joe Berchtold, is expected to testify on Tuesday before Congress that “industrial-scale ticket scalping” was to blame for the company’s problems late last year in managing the sale of Taylor Swift concert tickets.
Ticketmaster has argued that bots used by scalpers were behind the debacle, and Berchtold is expected to ask for more help in fighting bots that buy tickets for resale, sometimes at astronomical prices. In November, Ticketmaster cancelled a planned ticket sale to the general public for Swift’s tour after more than 3.5 billion requests from fans, bots and scalpers overwhelmed its website.
Klobuchar and two other lawmakers argued in November that Ticketmaster and owner Live Nation Entertainment should be broken up by the Justice Department if any misconduct is found in an ongoing investigation.
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