Here's 52 seconds of senators making Taylor Swift references at the Ticketmaster hearing.
Though today's hearing wasn't solely focused on Taylor Swift, few speakers missed the chance to slip in references to the pop star whose ticket sale disaster offered the catalyst for a congressional inquiry.
Blumenthal joined in with a pointed"Anti-Hero" lyric to Live Nation's president, suggesting the company look in the mirror and say,"I'm the problem, it's me." “We were then hit with three times the amount of bot traffic than we had ever experienced,” Berchtold said in his prepared testimony. “While the bots failed to penetrate our systems or acquire any tickets, the attack required us to slow down and even pause our sales.”
One of the goals of the hearing was to be able to give people those experiences, Klobuchar said. She thanked witnesses and her colleagues for turning out for the day, but also fans. Lee said in his closing remarks that he found the hearing helpful and said the topic relates to a lot of things his Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust oversees:"the intersection of consumer rights, consumer welfare, and our antitrust laws."
Last summer, the Justice Department began investigating Live Nation Entertainment for alleged antitrust violations. But the DOJ has so far not taken legal action against the ticketing giant.Rose Horowitch The BOSS Act was introduced in the Senate by Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., who participated in today’s Judiciary Committee hearing and suggested the legislation could be a solution to some problems with the industry. Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, echoed his support for the bill.
"I don't understand why it's a good thing for the ticket buyer to not be able to resell our tickets," Hawley said. "I'm not against big, per se," Kennedy said."I'm against dumb, and the way your company handled the ticket sales for Ms. Swift was a debacle."Kennedy further pressed Berchtold on why his company had not done more to address high ticket costs.Blackburn pushes Ticketmaster on bot defensesSen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn.
"These are bots that are not trying to generally break into our system; these are bots that are trying to impersonate people," Berchtold said.
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