Random music news for Monday, January 13, 2025
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Random music news for Thursday, April 18, 2024
How can you “accidentally” get divorced. Oh. Now for music news for April 18, 2024. More music news? Look here. BONUS: In the late 50s and early 60s, the Kuba
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Manitoba vs. secondary ticket sellers: New laws coming. Eventually.
Scalpers are in the news a lot lately, what with all the controversies involving Ticketmaster, Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen, Beyonce, Eurovision, and the Foo Fighters. Usually such chatter dies down
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eBay just sold StubHub to a rival ticketseller for US$4.05 billion
This will give you an idea of how big the market is for secondary ticket sellers. Ebay, which bought StubHub for US$310 million in 2007, unloaded the division to London-based
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Let’s take a close look at the Ontario Government’s new plans for regulating the sales of event tickets.
Governments all over the world have it out for bots, scalpers, and ticket resellers. In the last week, two provinces, BC and Ontario, have just come out with proposed legislation
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What’s the difference between ticket brokers, ticket resellers, and scalpers?
With the recent disastrous PR blow-up involving Ticketmaster and their apparently over-cozy relationship with ticket resellers, there’s been an even brighter spotlight on the secondary concert ticket market. This has
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Paradise Papers Reveal Massive StubHub Scheme by Canadian Multimillionaire
Chances are that if you’ve ever been screwed out of buying tickets for a hot concert, the guy doing the boning was Julien Lavallée. Lavallée, a Quebec-based multimillionaire, had the
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If you want a fully paperless ticket in New York State, you might be in luck. Right now, it’s the only place in the US where 100% digital tickets aren’t
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Arctic Monkeys’ Manager Says Resellers Trying to Collude on Increasing Ticket Prices
Maybe some of us have suspected it, to some extent, but the manager of the Arctic Monkeys is saying it’s true: Ticket resellers are trying to work with artists to
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Musician Losing Revenue on Two Fronts: Streaming and Secondary Ticket Sales
Is it possible that secondary ticket sellers are hurting musicians almost as much as they infuriate fans? There’s been plenty written on this site and many others over the past
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Random Music News for Thursday, May 26, 2016
The lavender redbud is blooming nicely in the front yard. It survived another rough winter. And now, the music news… Looks like the British government is really going to crack
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