{"id":85,"date":"2003-08-24T10:46:56","date_gmt":"2003-08-24T15:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/another-ticketmaster-incident\/"},"modified":"2003-08-24T10:46:56","modified_gmt":"2003-08-24T15:46:56","slug":"another-ticketmaster-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/another-ticketmaster-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"another ticketmaster incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;m still wading through the ever-expanding pile of reading material,  and today i found <a href=\"http:\/\/ir.thomsonfn.com\/InvestorRelations\/PubNewsStory.aspx?partner=Mzg0TVRjd05nPT1QJFkEQUALSTO&#038;product=MzgwU1ZJPVAkWQEQUALSTOEQUALSTO&#038;storyId=92566\">this<\/a>,  which is ticketmaster&#8217;s response to the string cheese incident&#8217;s lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>quick background:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stringcheeseincident.com\/\">string cheese incident<\/a> is a jam band.  and a popular one.  with a whole set of businesses wrapped around their music and performances.  one of those businesses is <a href=\"http:\/\/purchase.sciticketing.com\/scit\/index.html\" class=\"broken_link\">a ticket-service business<\/a>.  as you might imagine, bands like to sell tickets, it&#8217;s kinda how they do business.<\/p>\n<p>now all this is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/newswire\/2003\/08\/06\/rtr1051169.html\">news<\/a>, but it&#8217;s an old story (pearl jam went one round with ticketmaster in 1994 and lost).  so, i&#8217;ve been following, but not commenting, until now.  it just got interesting (and i&#8217;m a couple weeks behind).  in an august 11 press release, ticketmaster makes the following statement in response to the sci lawsuit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SCI&#8217;s ticket demands have forced Ticketmaster&#8217;s clients to make an unfair choice: either breach their contracts or lose the ability to host the band&#8217;s performance. SCI&#8217;s unfair leveraging of its popularity to achieve its for-profit ticketing goals is both improper and illegal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>leveraging popularity to achieve for-profit ticketing goals is both improper and illegal?  someone remind me:  how did ticketmaster get these venues to sign these contracts?  i&#8217;m sure it had nothing to do with leveraging popularity, because that would be improper and illegal.  right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;m still wading through the ever-expanding pile of reading material, and today i found this, which is ticketmaster&#8217;s response to the string cheese incident&#8217;s lawsuit. quick background: string cheese incident is a jam band. and a popular one. with a whole set of businesses wrapped around their music and performances. one of those businesses is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}