GOP senator slams Ticketmaster for ‘exorbitantly high prices’ ahead of reported DOJ lawsuit

Following reports that the Justice Department is zeroing in on litigation against one of the biggest concert ticket companies for an alleged monopoly, one GOP senator representing Nashville, Tennessee, says she is keeping a close watch. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this week that the DOJ is preparing to file an antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation, the parent company of Ticketmaster, as early as next month.

A Ticketmaster spokesperson said in a statement to Fox News Digital that the company "blocks billions of bots daily and no one in the industry invests more in anti-bot fighting technology." "However, it’s an escalating arms race with bots only getting smarter through AI, which is why to really improve ticketing we need laws that give artists control over resale and penalize scalpers who cheat the rules," the spokesperson said.

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