You guys severely underestimate what a monopoly is. Taylor could afford to take her music off Spotify or Apple Music because there were still other ways to sell or stream her music outside those two platforms. For tour, itās either she uses Ticketmaster or she doesnāt go on tour
@TheBookofTaylor i've seen people say she could've just sold the tickets from her website but i don't think they understand the # of servers & the sheer server sizes that are required to handle that much traffic. literally MILLIONS of fans. her little website can't handle even a fraction of that
@TheBookofTaylor @SwiftieStyletv Attorney Generals are starting to raise their eyebrows.
@TheBookofTaylor I was told yesterday that I obviously wasn't around when the letter to apple happened because I said that a letter isn't going to solve this. Some people really don't understand the difference between apple and a damn monopoly.
@TheBookofTaylor $LYV yeah after live nation bought ticketmaster back in 09' it became a clear monopoly. stubhub, eventbrite, seatgeek etc will probably end up being acquired by $LYV
@TheBookofTaylor @dontblameklara Ticketmaster makes up 70% of the market and if their infrastructure couldnāt handle the demand then any of the smaller ticketing companies 100% could not. They just wanna be mad at Taylor
@TheBookofTaylor I believe that there are tons of factors that go into all this, TM is a beast. But livenation is not the promoter or owns any venues in this tour. Thereās no way they are dictating to the venues and artists every aspect of tour. They definitely negotiate all this stuff
@TheBookofTaylor I feel bad about all the pressure that must put on Taylor. Sheās famous and powerful but sheās not a demigodā¦if she āstood upā against TicketMaster they would laugh in her face and we would never see her live again because her venue options would go from holding 70,000 to 10,000
@TheBookofTaylor Ticketmaster has the server resources to handle the traffic her tickets demand. Taylor Swift couldnāt even sell 5000 preorder using Bandcamp without the whole site going down. She did 2 million in a day thatās impressive for any website to handle.
@TheBookofTaylor @SpeakFolklore Letās not think that Taylor could open up her own ticketing service for her own tour, and the venues wouldnāt jump on. Itās Taylor Swift. sheās the only one that could do it.