More Bots Impacting the Economics of Entertainment Info

Yesterday evening, I received a follow-up on the TDS bot army video from a friend who works in the music industry. He's a really cool fellow -- not only does he work in music, but he has fantastic experiences as an employee of the federal government designing trails for national parks. Hopefully we'll have him on the channel really soon to talk about some of that!

Anyway, he has some serious insight into how bots are used even more broadly to impact the economics of entertainment and I really thought this was worthwhile to share with all of you. Again, we're tracking all of this (along with tons of information that comes in every day). Connecting the dots is what we strive to do in order to bring the news out as honestly and truthfully as we can.

Here's the message:

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I work in the music industry. The music industry owns hundreds of thousands of bots that attack online ticket sales, thwarting patient customers in virtual queues and literally buying up all the tickets available, posting them immediately online on StubHub for inflated prices. Concertgoers get screwed and you can find them complaining on all platforms. Jam band audiences especially.

Giant monopoly Ticketmaster owns resale market StubHub. They also own the bots that purchase tickets and post them to StubHub. This should be illegal. It's totally legal. People are hip to this scam and hate it.This turns off younger generations to live events and music and performances in this regard have little future if nothing is affordable and face value no longer exists. It's all about greed.It is just a scheme to destroy the concept of face value and make all tickets premium prices. This degrades our culture when culture becomes out of reach for most people. This is all by design.

Taylor Swift's ticket bot episode last year is a great example. You guys probably don't realize what is going on in music but it's the precursor to film and TV where they are rebooting music.

When you walk into a Target or Panera or whatever, you will hear really bad music by unfamiliar artists. This is by design because old music competes way too much with current releases.They actually hate it when a Madonna song from 40 years ago is focus grouped against a new artist and Madonna wins hands down. Producers feel painted into a corner and demand that old music not be available anymore in order to reset the country's tastes, bringing them down a notch because honestly, music is too powerful for Americans in their eyes. It's used as tallying cries and affirmations of certain beliefs and values.

Music is how we speak to each other on primal, instinctual levels and the few corporations that own and produce all of our music really really hates that human dynamic and are trying to recreate music into something that will never ever be a threat to our corporate cultural masters of the universe.

This is what we face. This is the true enemy of our culture and our future.

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So let me know what you think about the message in the comments below! As soon as I have permission, I'll provide the source on this one for you.

Your pal,
Pro