{"id":237775,"date":"2025-09-19T01:48:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T01:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/237775\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T01:48:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T01:48:16","slug":"ticketmaster-live-nation-sued-by-ftc-over-ticket-resales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/237775\/","title":{"rendered":"Ticketmaster, Live Nation Sued by FTC Over Ticket Resales"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US Federal Trade Commission<\/a> and seven states sued Live Nation Entertainment Inc.<\/a> and its Ticketmaster subsidiary for failing to stem the use of automated ticketing bots and large-scale resale operations in a lawsuit that could see the ticketing giant face billions of dollars in penalties.<\/p>\n

The consumer protection agency said the nation\u2019s largest ticketing platform failed to enforce its own purchase limits, which allowed resellers to buy up large numbers of passes for popular events, according to a lawsuit filed in California federal court<\/a> Thursday. The agency said that Ticketmaster systematically ignored ticket brokers that bypassed its limits since it earns money from resales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US Federal Trade Commission and seven states sued Live Nation Entertainment Inc. and its Ticketmaster subsidiary for…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":237776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,276,89735,61449,15428,3228,127487,405,127488,94443,67,132,68,13594,5223],"class_list":{"0":"post-237775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-consumer-protection","11":"tag-donald-john-trump","12":"tag-justice-department","13":"tag-law","14":"tag-live-nation-entertainment-in","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-oval-office-the","17":"tag-pursuits","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-washington-dc","22":"tag-white-house"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115228449566962185","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}