Songkick ticketmaster7/6/2023 Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said in a statement. “Ticketmaster employees repeatedly - and illegally - accessed a competitor’s computers without authorization using stolen passwords to unlawfully collect business intelligence,” Seth DuCharme, acting U.S. In January 2018, Live Nation reached a $110 million settlement with Songkick to resolve an antitrust lawsuit the startup had filed under which Live Nation agreed to acquire Songkick’s technology assets and patents. Songkick shut down in October 2017 after earlier declaring bankruptcy. Ticketmaster’s deal with prosecutors comes after Zaidi in October 2019 pleaded guilty in a related case to conspiring to commit computer intrusions and wire fraud based on his participation in the scheme. “We are pleased that this matter is now resolved.” “Their actions violated our corporate policies and were inconsistent with our values,” Ticketmaster said in the statement. Ticketmaster, owned by Live Nation Entertainment, said in a statement that in 2017 it fired both Zeeshan Zaidi, former head of Ticketmaster’s artist services division, and the former CrowdSurge exec, Stephen Mead, “after their conduct came to light.” A former employee of ticketing firm CrowdSurge (which later merged with Songkick) who had joined Live Nation shared URLs with Ticketmaster employees that provided access to draft ticketing web pages that Songkick had built in an attempt to “steal back” one of Songkick’s top artist clients, federal prosecutors said. The now-defunct competitor, Songkick, offered artist-direct ticket presales for concerts sold in advance of general ticket sales. According to the Justice Department’s settlement with Ticketmaster (available at this link), from August 2013 to December 2015, Ticketmaster employees “repeatedly” used stolen passwords to gain unauthorized access to non-public ticketing info from the rival firm.
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