The big ticket companies make exclusive arrangements with these rooms. They pay them just to not work with others. So if a company gives you 30 grand a year to stay away from anybody else, you need it. We didn’t attack their territory. We just went to places that they didn’t care about.
This is a strategy IAC uses with a lot of their companies, including Ticketmaster. Barry Diller started out at Paramount Pictures, so he brings with him the same type of thinking that fuels the MPAA and RIAA. "The solution isn't innovation, let's just keep people doing whatever they've been doing. If we have to sue our customers, so be it."
I think it's awesome when guys like Louis C.K. go outside of the system and as a result end up gaining a lot of leverage and power as a result. I remember Trent Reznor doing the same thing.
This is a strategy IAC uses with a lot of their companies, including Ticketmaster. Barry Diller started out at Paramount Pictures, so he brings with him the same type of thinking that fuels the MPAA and RIAA. "The solution isn't innovation, let's just keep people doing whatever they've been doing. If we have to sue our customers, so be it."
I think it's awesome when guys like Louis C.K. go outside of the system and as a result end up gaining a lot of leverage and power as a result. I remember Trent Reznor doing the same thing.