[boringg]

You do understand that Ticketmaster has an effective monopoly and has a past history of sketchy business practices. I certainly wouldn't be surprised if they pocketed it themselves or a large majority of it. It would be completely congruent with their business practices.

[function_seven]

Yeah I know TM is sketchy and monopolistic. That doesn't mean they have the leverage to take 90% of the money for themselves. The artists would raise the face value of their tickets to recapture it if it were as simple as that.

We don't know what the details are on how the money is divvied up, but I do know that artists must be getting upside on this dynamic pricing.

[Jgrubb]

> That doesn't mean they have the leverage to take 90% of the money for themselves

Listen, that's exactly what they have. The music business mostly exists to screw artists out of money made from their work, probably more now than ever.

The artist signs a contract to pay for X dollars, that's what they get and they have no leverage whatsoever to go after that upside. Ticketmaster would have to share the data about the dynamic pricing in the first place and they are NOT doing that.

[boringg]

Actually thats exactly whats this means. Monopolistic/monopoly allows them to capture what they want without risk.