Ticketmaster Finally Faces Accountability For Being A Shitty Monopoly (Maybe)

Way back in 1994 you might recall that Pearl Jam cancelled their summer tour because they, just wee tots at the time, very clearly realized that TicketMaster held an illegal monopoly over concert tickets, screwing consumers and competitors alike with broad restrictions and high prices.Everybody knew this to be true for the decades to follow, but because U.S. antitrust enforcement is so pathetic, and the country so painfully corrupt, it took more than three decades for Ticketmaster to be held accountable. Maybe.A few weeks ago a jury found that Ticketmaster operates an illegal monopoly over event tickets in the United States. An announcement by NY AG Letitia James (and the 33 other attorneys general that joined their suit) doesn't pull any punches:"The jury today found Live Nation and Ticketmaster liable for violating federal and state laws by engaging in anticompetitive conduct. The jury found that Ticketmaster unlawfully maintains a monopoly in the market for ticketing services at…