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Kid Rock Joins Trump for Executive Order Limiting Ticket Scalping

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order targeting unfair ticket reselling by scalpers.

The live entertainment industry has come under scrutiny in recent years after Ticketmaster broke during the on-sale for Taylor Swift’s Eras tour, leading to tickets priced at astronomical fees on the resell market. In 2022, New York State passed legislation to protect consumers from unfair pricing, but Rolling Stone reported that year that compliance was low at the time. Although Live Nation and Ticketmaster, which Reuters reports holds a 70 percent market share on ticketing, sought to have the DoJ’s lawsuit dismissed, a judge decided earlier this month that it should go forward.

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