A bootlegger is a bootlegger, a scalper is a scalper.
You might be a redneck if you're still scalping tickets after the concert is over.
We have a lot of secondary market problems in the U.K.; it's really bad there. And lots of artists are starting to participate in it, because they put the tickets up at a certain price, then the tickets get marked up by the secondary sellers, and someone else gets twice as much as you.
If it doesn't know what to charge you for nosebleed seats, your team sucks.
The history of the ticketing business was about barriers to entry, which kept Ticketmaster protected. That has changed.
Actually, we've done 75 of these shows and every one of them has sold out. But then we buy all the tickets.
I'm very much against the secondary ticket market. I don't know anyone who isn't.
Everyone loves to criticize Ticketmaster, but the real asset of Ticketmaster is that it's the third-largest e-commerce site in America.
The great thing about Ticketmaster is that it's seen as the comprehensive site for ticketing, artist information, venue information. We're a marketing platform, not just a technology platform, and we're going to build on it.
