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Music Industry Misfortune
The music industry is notorious for preying on the artists on which its existence depends. In the early days of recorded music, this exploitation started with unfavorable contracts, depriving musicians of the fruits of their labor while record labels made all the money. The mistreatment has since evolved into the Live Nation Entertainment monopoly, where the company has a nearly exclusive hold on the ticket market (thanks, Ticketmaster!) and an equally tight grasp on the event side, where the company owned at least 259 venues worldwide as of 2021, and where many of their ticketed concerts are held.
Ticketmaster has long faced the ire of musicians and die-hard fans fed up with surreptitious order processing fees. In 1994, Pearl Jam made a complaint to the Justice Department accusing the company of be
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