Comments on: TicketNation or LiveMaster?… http://cultureandcommunication.org/f09/tdm/h-man/ticketnation-or-livemaster/ Graduate class in (new) Media (networked) Culture and (distributed) Communication @NYU Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:02:50 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Melissa_A http://cultureandcommunication.org/f09/tdm/h-man/ticketnation-or-livemaster/comment-page-1/#comment-1230 Melissa_A Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:29:42 +0000 http://cultureandcommunication.org/f09/tdm/?p=4121#comment-1230 Ugh, I hate Comcast and I can't see how involving them alleviates antitrust issues... Anyway here's an article that talks about what else they get out of the deal. Apparently they are also trying to acquire NBC. http://www.thestreet.com/story/10627586/1/comcast-aims-to-assist-ticketmaster-deal.html?cm_ven=GOOGLEFI Ugh, I hate Comcast and I can’t see how involving them alleviates antitrust issues… Anyway here’s an article that talks about what else they get out of the deal. Apparently they are also trying to acquire NBC.

http://www.thestreet.com/story/10627586/1/comcast-aims-to-assist-ticketmaster-deal.html?cm_ven=GOOGLEFI

]]> By: Mushon http://cultureandcommunication.org/f09/tdm/h-man/ticketnation-or-livemaster/comment-page-1/#comment-1188 Mushon Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:53:59 +0000 http://cultureandcommunication.org/f09/tdm/?p=4121#comment-1188 Well, this sounds like pretty bad news for people like you who are going to shows regularly, and to artists that were hoping to be released of the grip of the music industry only to fall into the hands of the ticketing industry. I am not sure what are your plans for the rest of the travelogue, but if I were you would take it to the streets (so to speak...) Are there any grassroots attempts to resist this move? From music fans, artists, publications... What are the big guns saying about this? Are they <a href="http://blogs.suntimes.com/derogatis/2009/02/so_who_exactly_are_the_artists.html" rel="nofollow">for it?</a> are they <a href="http://forum.nin.com/bb/read.php?59,548515" rel="nofollow">against it?</a> Why? What does it all mean? (Oh, and don't let the record label take you out to lunch) <object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=763781&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=763781&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/763781" rel="nofollow">Jeffrey Lewis- Don't Let the Record Label take you out to lunch</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/therealuhf" rel="nofollow">The Real UHF</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com" rel="nofollow">Vimeo</a>.</p> Well, this sounds like pretty bad news for people like you who are going to shows regularly, and to artists that were hoping to be released of the grip of the music industry only to fall into the hands of the ticketing industry. I am not sure what are your plans for the rest of the travelogue, but if I were you would take it to the streets (so to speak…) Are there any grassroots attempts to resist this move? From music fans, artists, publications… What are the big guns saying about this? Are they for it? are they against it? Why? What does it all mean?

(Oh, and don’t let the record label take you out to lunch)

Jeffrey Lewis- Don’t Let the Record Label take you out to lunch from The Real UHF on Vimeo.

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