Ticketmaster to pay $10 million in fines after admitting to illegally accessing competitor's com....

[Budi]

Ticketmaster entered into a plea agreement with federal prosecutors in Brooklyn, New York and will pay $10 million in fines to resolve charges that it accessed the computer systems of a competitor without authorization.

"Ticketmaster employees repeatedly -- and illegally -- accessed a competitor's computers without authorization using stolen passwords to unlawfully collect business intelligence," Acting U.S. Attorney Seth DuCharme said Wednesday in a press release.

Ticketmaster is a subsidiary of LiveNation (LYV).
In 2019, Democratic senators called for a federal antitrust investigation of LiveNation for what they called "nefarious practices" and "sky-high fees" levied on consumers

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[Renew Deal]

1. That's pretty brazen

The highest ranking person that knew about it and didn't stop it should be thrown in jail.

[Snoopy 7]

2. Here we go again

Another huge company breaks the law and makes billions only to be fined pennies on the dollar, heck it might be fractions of a penny on the dollar. I guess later they will have to sign that awful paper that says they 'don't take any responsibility for any wrong doings(?)'. Then they will go on and break the law in a different way. Ticket Master is why I stopped going to concerts, before they came into the picture concerts could cost you $15-20. Tom Petty, and others, fought them and lost. We will never go back to days of old but ""nefarious practices" and "sky-high fees" levied on consumers." will this no be the norm?