{"id":387118,"date":"2026-04-19T10:31:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T10:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/387118\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T10:31:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T10:31:17","slug":"live-nation-antitrust-debate-misses-the-real-disruption-from-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/387118\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Nation Antitrust Debate Misses the Real Disruption From AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Frustrated concertgoers may feel vindicated by a jury\u2019s finding that Live Nation acted as a monopoly. Coverage of the verdict has focused on potential structural changes, including whether a judge might force the company to divest Ticketmaster. But the bigger story might be that here, once again, antitrust law is chasing yesterday\u2019s technology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Because artificial intelligence will soon change everything about the consumer\u2019s interaction with ticket sellers, regardless of what the courts decide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frustrated concertgoers may feel vindicated by a jury\u2019s finding that Live Nation acted as a monopoly. Coverage of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,2396,12867,8307,263,111,139,69,2114,213,145,9880],"class_list":{"0":"post-387118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-culture","12":"tag-katy-perry","13":"tag-law","14":"tag-lifestyle","15":"tag-new-zealand","16":"tag-newzealand","17":"tag-nz","18":"tag-opinion","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-technology","21":"tag-view"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}