Mark A Lemley on Nostr: I'm very happy to see the government moving to break up LiveNation at last. Approving ...
I'm very happy to see the government moving to break up LiveNation at last. Approving the Ticketmaster merger in 2010 was a travesty at the time, and it has only gotten worse as LiveNation proceeded to ignore the supposed conduct limits the government said would suffice to rein in its monopoly power.
This case is a good lesson both in the evils of monopoly and in the worthlessness of conduct-based remedies as a substitute for banning mergers.
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