, offered artist-direct ticket presales for concerts sold in advance of general ticket sales. A former Songkick employee who had joined Live Nation shared URLs with Ticketmaster employees that provided access to draft ticketing web pages that Songkick had built in an attempt to “steal back” one of Songkick’s top artist clients, federal prosecutors said.
The Ticketmaster deal with prosecutors comes after Zeeshan Zaidi, former head of Ticketmaster’s artist services division, in October 2019 pleaded guilty in a related case to conspiring to commit computer intrusions and wire fraud based on his participation in the scheme.after earlier declaring bankruptcy.
“Ticketmaster employees repeatedly — and illegally — accessed a competitor’s computers without authorization using stolen passwords to unlawfully collect business intelligence,” Seth DuCharme, acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said in a statement. “Further, Ticketmaster’s employees brazenly held a division-wide ‘summit’ at which the stolen passwords were used to access the victim company’s computers, as if that were an appropriate business tactic.
Between approximately July 2014 and June 2015, Coconspirator-1 and others monitored draft ticketing web pages created by the victim company. Although these pages were not password-protected, they were not indexed in search engines, and therefore could not be located without determining the exact URLs, which included a series of numbers. Until the victim company or artist publicly disseminated a URL, the victim company intended to restrict access to itself and the artist.
Worried little shits?
$10 million, the price of justice. There needs to be people in jail.
This is egregious and merits more than a 10 million $ fine.
I hope they add a five million dollar service fee to the fine.
No jail time? At the very least, they should be CHARGED.
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