Ticketmaster Scalping Its Own Tickets on Secondary Web Sites
Giving us yet another reason to hate Ticketmaster, the company revealed that it has been scalping tickets through its secondary TicketExchange and TicketsNow Web sites. Designed as a means for fans to sell tickets they've already purchased, Ticketmaster senior vice president for legal affairs Joseph Freeman told the Wall Street Journal that TicketExchange and TicketsNow "only rarely list tickets ...
Back in the day, bootleg recordings were poor-quality reproductions of live concerts captured on crummy tape systems that were then passed around (usually illegally) between rabid fans. These days, it seems, that concept has gone a little....commercial. Verizon has announced a partnership with former grunge mavens Pearl Jam to release a trio of 'bootleg' tracks after each concert on their 2008 ...
AT&T has come out and said it was wrong to censor a live Pearl Jam song that featured a pair of lines a pair of lines criticizing George W. Bush. Last weekend, AT&T streamed live performances from the Lollapalooza festival in Chicago through its Blue Room website. It was during Pearl Jam's performance that a pair of lines critical of President Bush, sung to the tune of Pink Floyd's ...








