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Internal emails reveal Ticketmaster helped scalpers jack up prices, FTC says

FTC sued Ticketmaster and Live Nation for turning “blind eye” to scalpers.

Through those years, employees occasionally flagged abuse behavior that Ticketmaster and Live Nation were financially motivated to ignore, the FTC alleged. "Yikes," said a Ticketmaster employee in 2019 after noticing that a broker previously flagged for "violating fictitious account rules on a "large scale" was "still not slowing down." In fact, executives were more alarmed, the FTC alleged, when brokers complained about high-volume purchases being blocked, "intentionally" working to support their efforts to significantly raise secondary market ticket prices.

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