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Dangerous_Affect_861 t1_je46e69 wrote

Reply to comment by BeejOnABiscuit in ELI5: Everyone knows that Ticketmaster is the biggest scumbucket enterprise on the planet yet no band seems able to avoid their grasp. What's to stop a really major act (e.g. Taylor Swift) from performing in venues that are not controlled by Ticketmaster, or just setting up a parallel company? by havereddit

Because it is necessary to use the power of the majority. When a major event with an expected crowd of, for example, 100 thousand people will sell only 5 thousand tickets, then they will change.

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BeejOnABiscuit t1_je46lu8 wrote

That is true, but what would it take to pull off a boycott of that scale? I bet most people value entertainment now over the slight possibility of future change. How do you get so many people to go against their own self interest?

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