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Erm except AEG promoted that whole tour (and the too few beyond it – RIP Prince) and is a replica of, and/or, the only direct competitor of Live Nation. That's

Erm except AEG promoted that whole tour (and the too few beyond it – RIP Prince) and is a replica of, and/or, the only direct competitor of Live Nation. That's a weird example to pick out, as if Prince was 'fighting the system', and yet I'm sure you know he exclusively signed & got paid up-front from the 2nd positioned monopoly in the game. Cool story that you got to sit side stage and wrote code behind his fan club ticketing (which I'm sure you and AMEX shared for <= 7% total tickets sold, and AEG _definitely_ didn't finance as part of the exclusivity deal on the whole run) but come on... I know you know all you've done is present an alternative story that's supposed to garner upvotes but anyone who knows, knows you were the next one in line to fuck this entire industry and rake it off top. Edit: Google says fans also know. https://prince.org/msg/7/247733 https://prince.org/msg/7/247733

jbotdev 3y ago
It’s weird to complain about supporting AEG claiming they’re somehow the 2nd “monopoly” after LiveNation. You can only have one “monopoly” in a given industry, otherwise they’re both just close competitors. Having a close second competitor is still a step in the right direction, even if you disagree with their business practices.
- CPLX 3y ago
  That’s not true. You can have two or more companies share a market via market splitting and the result is still effectively a monopoly.
  - themaninthedark 3y ago
    That would be a duopoly not a monopoly.
    - CPLX 3y ago
      Perhaps. It still sucks for the same reasons.
- leehuffman 3y ago
  Fine. I used the wrong term. You can't argue anything else I wrote outside of the word "monopoly" though, sooooo...
rusk 3y ago
> I know you know all you've done is present an alternative story that's supposed to garner upvotes Please don’t don’t do this. Ugly and Boring. See bottom https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- leehuffman 3y ago
  Fair enough. Message received.

jbotdev 3y ago

It’s weird to complain about supporting AEG claiming they’re somehow the 2nd “monopoly” after LiveNation. You can only have one “monopoly” in a given industry, otherwise they’re both just close competitors. Having a close second competitor is still a step in the right direction, even if you disagree with their business practices.

CPLX 3y ago
That’s not true. You can have two or more companies share a market via market splitting and the result is still effectively a monopoly.
- themaninthedark 3y ago
  That would be a duopoly not a monopoly.
  - CPLX 3y ago
    Perhaps. It still sucks for the same reasons.
leehuffman 3y ago
Fine. I used the wrong term. You can't argue anything else I wrote outside of the word "monopoly" though, sooooo...

rusk 3y ago

> I know you know all you've done is present an alternative story that's supposed to garner upvotes Please don’t don’t do this. Ugly and Boring. See bottom https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

leehuffman 3y ago
Fair enough. Message received.