Live Nation director boasted of gouging ticket buyers, "robbing them blind"
摘要
新公开的法律文件显示,Live Nation一位区域总监曾在内部通讯中吹嘘通过停车位微升级等附加服务向购票者收取高额费用,并称粉丝“太蠢”,公司是在“抢他们的钱”。Live Nation试图阻止这些信息作为证据进入庭审,但遭美国政府及各州总检察长反对。目前法官已下令解封相关文件,但尚未就是否采纳证据作出裁决。此案旨在寻求拆分Live Nation及其子公司T
Newly unsealed documents show that a Live Nation regional director boasted of gouging ticket buyers and "robbing them blind" with fees for ancillary services such as slight upgrades to parking.
Live Nation has tried to exclude Slack messages from a trial that seeks a breakup of Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary, claiming the messages are irrelevant to the case, "highly prejudicial," and would "inflame the jury." The US government and state attorneys general opposed the motion to exclude evidence. US District Judge Arun Subramanian of the Southern District of New York hasn't ruled on the motion yet, but ordered the documents unsealed yesterday.
Live Nation has touted the experiences it offers concertgoers at amphitheaters but sought "to exclude candid, internal messages in which the individual who is currently Head of Ticketing for these amphitheaters calls fans 'so stupid,' explains that he 'gouge[s]' them, and brags that Live Nation is 'robbing them blind, baby,'" said a memorandum of law filed by the US and states.