{"id":987637,"date":"2025-10-20T18:53:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T18:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/?p=987637"},"modified":"2025-12-08T18:54:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:54:24","slug":"ticketmaster-denies-aiding-scalpers-but-announces-policy-changes-after-ftc-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/?p=987637","title":{"rendered":"Ticketmaster Denies Aiding Scalpers, But Announces Policy Changes After FTC Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Live Nation denied the Federal Trade Commission\u2019s accusations that it worked with scalpers to make millions on resale tickets, but also told lawmakers that Ticketmaster would implement new safeguards to address several issues highlighted in the FTC lawsuit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Billboard reports, Live Nation\u2019s Executive Vice President Daniel M. Wall told Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n (D-N.M.) in an Oct. 17 letter that Ticketmaster would ban fans and brokers from operating multiple accounts and require ticket brokers to share their Social Security numbers when using Ticketmaster\u2019s resale platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ticketmaster-denies-working-scalpers-policy-changes-1235450501\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ticketnews.com\/2025\/07\/study-ticket-resale-saved-fans-414-million-in-2024\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rolling Stone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-news","post_format-post-format-link"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"sbriesacher","author_link":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/?author=3"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=987637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=987637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=987637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=987637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}