Hopefully this will light a fire under the proposal to break up its monopoly, I’m not hopeful about it but that would be a very easy win for pretty much any politician up for reelection. Ticketmaster being the fucking worst is about as close as we have to bipartisan agreement on any issue. Definitely not 100% of “both sides” and I’m sure TM is lobbying their dicks off to get that killed. But this might be a bone they toss us this cycle
I don't even check anymore. I get a credit / "your info was found on the dark web!" Email literally every week, what's the point. I've been fucked by giga corps and I have nothing to show for it besides weekly notifications of my compromised info
The best (worst) part is that they almost always just point you to the ways that you can already request your credit report and monitoring for free from the credit bureaus. 🥲
And the best part of that is, who ever authorized these credit bureaus to monitor and maintain your credit info in the first place. (Spoiler alert: no one.) And they get hacked every other year anyway.
For a little while there after 2008, the CFPB had some teeth. It has since been crippled sufficiently to allow the oligarchs’ reign to proceed unencumbered.
You know what, you meanies... Ticket Master is just a poor mom and pop shop - it can't afford all your fancy security bells and whistles and it's frankly repulsive that you expect it to be able to protect itself in this dangerous modern world.
I was in a queue two days ago for tickets to a show. Of course, I got kicked out of the queue twice, and then lost my chance to get a ticket at all. When I wrote their support about it, they said they hadn't anticipated this amount of traffic and it had crashed their servers.
On a pre-sale that you had to sign up for.
You know, so they will know how many people they can expect.
Something that Ticketmaster routinely does, giving them exclusive access to the numbers, telling them exactly how much traffic they can expect.
A slightly more cynical person might say that maybe, just maybe, the only goal Ticketmaster has is to spend the bare minimum to keep their website afloat, so they can pocket the rest. They don't give a fuck about anyone or anything except their own profits. If this criminal organization would go down in flames tomorrow, I would buy pizza for everyone on my floor to celebrate.
Honestly, I'm just surprised that they're still allowed to exist in Europe.
I had similar problems for.... The band James and Johhny Marr. I'm fuckin excited as hell but it's not like that is drawing the same numbers as the popular acts.
I got tickets but I had massive problems and didn't get the seats I tried to get multiple times
It may not be, but where did you get that number? The article (currently) says the data of 560 million ticket-purchasing customers was stolen. I don't see anything about "venue rentals business" customers, nor about 1 billion customers of any kind.
I accidentally dropped the "half a" but the point stands. No company should have this sort of leverage over half a billion people. Capotalism creates concentration of power in a classic rich gets richer loop. The state is supposed squash them way before they get this osbcenely big.
Ticketmaster has struggled withbenefited from bad actors online using bots and other methods to disrupt the ticketing service and scoop up tickets to resell. The company also has a history of being the bad actor itself when it comes to electronic data.
And how does this honestly affect Ticketmaster? I doubt it damages them at all. Their customers are fucked, but do they see this as something they need to keep secure? I doubt they spend that much on security.
For the last few years I've been going to festivals that avoid fricken Ticketbastard. They're still expensive but at least the money is going to the people putting it on instead of some corporate heads and hedge funders