The role Ticketmaster plays in the live event business is much bigger than simple middlemen.  They provide the previously mentioned marketing, promotion, and discovery.  They provide box office management.  They provide customer service.  They manage the secondary market.  They provide business intelligence.  They represent artists.  They even own their own venues for a complete vertical monopoly.<p>They are the Amazon Web Services of the live event business.  Sure, you will probably have a better experience if you use Backblaze for your storage, but AWS provides so many other services you might need that it makes sense to consolidate your business with them.  That is why Ticketmaster is so entrenched.  It isn&#x27;t corruption.  There is just a huge barrier to entry when your biggest competitor has such a complete product offering.