They are but the DoJ is getting involved 30 years too late.

They crushed all of the meaningful competition that long ago. Even breaking the company up into parts wouldn't suddenly fix the industry.

If the Live Nation one could be undone, and we could ban TM from operating venues and LN from selling tickets, and ban TM from having exclusive deals or sharing any of their "fees" with anyone else in any way, it'd be a start.

It will allow room for ticketing companies to actually exist though. Right now it's basically just livenation and a long tail of smaller companies, many of which got swallowed up by eg; eventbrite.

Correct, but it would give an actual market opportunity for new competitors.

If they get split up, I predict we'll see everyone from AXS to Seatgeek to some Stanford blockchain bros with VC funding jumping into the market immediately.

Jd was in fact involved. They green lit the merger!

Well that's good. Antitrust action isn't meant to suddenly fix anything overnight.

Lots of music venues in NY use an app called "DICE", Eventbrite is also a thing

And Weezevent is quite popular in some European countries.

Couldn't agree more - all they did was aggregate market power then extract grotesque rents. Truly a terrible company.

Most of the venues, behind the curtain, are Live Nation owned too.