Ticketmasters Taylor Swift trouble
Last week, Ticketmaster pre-sales for Taylor Swift's Eras tour quickly devolved into chaos, with site crashes, many people waiting eight hours or more in online queues, and tickets going for upward of $40,000 US on secondary sales sites like Stubhub. \nThis is far from the first incident to prompt widespread outrage against Ticketmaster. Sky-high prices for Blink-182 and Bruce Springsteen concerts have been among the sore spots. But the Swift fiasco is shining a new light on the company's virtual monopoly over wide swathes of the live music industry, prompting many \u2014 including several U.S. lawmakers \u2014 to call for the company to be investigated and broken up.\n\nToday, Jason Koebler \u2014 editor-in-chief of Motherboard, VICE's technology site \u2014 joins Front Burner to break this all down.