Fake and speculative tickets pop up all over secondary market ticket sites, due to high demand and limited stock. In California, these kinds of ticket sales could be banned.

The lawsuit alleged that Ticketmaster reaped $3.7 billion in resale fees over 5 years. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission and seven states accused Live Nation and its ticketing arm Ticketmaster of costing fans millions of dollars by tacitly allowing ...

The country-rock artists returned to Capitol Hill to discuss the astronomical cost of tickets and how to combat speculative ticketing and ticket-scooping bots.

His testimony is rare, but representative, he suggests. "Unlike most of my peers, I am beholden to no one," Kid Rock says early on. "To put it plainly, I ain't scared to speak out on these issues like many artists, managers, and agents are for fear of biting the hand that feeds them.

Artists who want access to its major venues are pressured to use Live Nation promotion, and venues that want to book tours are pushed into exclusive Ticketmaster contracts. Consumers are thus left with a single ticketing option and a blizzard of opaque fees that they cannot avoid.