The FTC acknowledges its suit is based in large part on revelations from a 2018 CBC News/Toronto Star investigation, in which reporters went undercover posing as “ticket brokers” and exposed how Ticketmaster recruited mass scalpers and knowingly let them use hundreds of fake accounts to circumvent ticket-buying limits.
It is a bigger scam. The artists get a percent of original ticket sales, but not scalped ticket sales. So Ticketmaster creates shell companies to scalp, and then they steal the artists’ cut. Classic.