[leehuffman]

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

[jbotdev]

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.

[leehuffman]

Fine. I used the wrong term. You can't argue anything else I wrote outside of the word "monopoly" though, sooooo...

[CPLX]

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]

That would be a duopoly not a monopoly.

[CPLX]

Perhaps. It still sucks for the same reasons.

[rusk]

> 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

[leehuffman]

Fair enough. Message received.