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New York Times • August 11, 2003
TICKETING COMPANY SUES TICKETMASTER

A company that sells tickets for the rock band String Cheese Incident has filed a lawsuit against Ticketmaster for unfair business practices, the Associated Press reports. In a federal suit SCI Ticketing accuses Ticketmas.ter, owned by InterActiveCorp, of unfairly monopolizing the market by not allowing concert promoters and performing spaces to release blocks of tickets to other ticketing agencies. SCI said the policy violated federal antitrust laws. In 1994 the group Pearl Jam accused Ticketmaster of inflating ticket prices and controlling the market. That led to a Justice Department antitrust investigation, which was dropped the next year without any action against Ticketmaster.