“Soon after that fiasco, Ticketmaster and Live Nation did merge and became a single company.”
In 2009 Springsteen warned that a Ticketmaster and Live Nation merger would make ticketing a near monopoly. Regulators approved it anyway. Now Ticketmaster “fights” scalpers by charging scalper prices itself, up to $600 a seat. The scalpers didn’t lose. Ticketmaster became the scalper.