Taylor Swift, Ticketmaster and FTC
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The Federal Trade Commission accused a shadowy group of flooding Ticketmaster with fake accounts to purchase and resell tickets to concerts by Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen and other top artists.
The FTC alleges brokers illegally scooped up Eras Tour tickets and resold them for millions in profit. We’re on the other side of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour now, but the landmark 149-show world tour’s rollout was plagued by bots,
The lawsuit is part of a crackdown President Trump announced in March focused on curbing exploitative ticket reselling practices that raise costs for fans.
The FTC has sued Key Investment Group for allegedly circumventing Ticketmaster controls to purchase and resell over 2,000 tickets for Taylor Swift's 'The Eras Tour' at massive profits.
The FTC has filed a lawsuit against a ticket reseller company for allegedly price-gouging tickets to Taylor Swift's Eras Tour.
Taylor Swift Eras Tour tickets were illegally resold by a company for more than $1 million in profit, says a new FTC lawsuit.
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News Nation on MSNTaylor Swift’s ‘Eras Tour’ success and the Ticketmaster fallout
Over 3.5 million people signed up for the pre-sale but overwhelming demand, and scalper bots, tled to 3.5 billion total system requests for Ticketmaster.