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"I hate to think it&amp;apos;s the wave of the future &amp;#x2013; corporate giants that can&amp;apos;t be toppled,&amp;quot; Eddie Vedder told fans at Pearl Jam&amp;apos;s July 11 Chicago show, referring to the Justice Department&amp;apos;s July 5 announcement that it was dropping its antitrust investigation into Ticketmaster. The move came 11 days after Pearl Jam canceled half of their troubled tour using ticketing agency ETM.\r\nIronically, the band&amp;apos;s use of a smaller agency may have contributed to the department&amp;apos;s decision. &amp;quot;There are new enterprises coming into the [ticketing] arena,&amp;quot; attorney general Janet Reno said. The move came a day before officials were to meet with ETM representatives. &amp;quot;We understood we&amp;apos;d have an opportunity to give our side,&amp;quot; says ETM exec Ray Garman.\r\nPerhaps Ticketmaster was taken by surprise as well. In March it sent its contracted venues a gloomy assessment of the investigation&amp;apos;s progress; some of the venues then hired Brown and Bain, formerly the law firm of the head of the department&amp;apos;s antitrust division, to lobby on their behalf. The department maintains it &amp;quot;will continue to monitor competitive developments in the ticketing industry.&amp;quot;\r\nGarman says that despite the difficulties, &amp;quot;there will be more Pearl Jam shows,&amp;quot; including dates in the Northeast.\r\nThis story is from the August 24th, 1995 issue of Rolling Stone."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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