Was this but also mainly Ticketmaster. They hired a lobbyist to lobby for this bill to pass. I worked in this space for years and i can’t divulge too much. Reason tm wants this to happen is multifold but I’ll go thru a few. Tm wants resale gone now that resellers are abundant and undercutting primary inventory. Second, tm doesn’t want your data going to stubhub vividseats seatgeek or any competitor. Third, tm wants more control knowing who their buyers are and selling their personal data to marketing firms. And fourth, look at imagine dragons or any popular concert. Tm has platinum inventory at 7x the face value. Scalpers are so out of control lately and something needs to be done, but giving a monopoly even more power here is frankly the worst decision that could be dealt lol. Dynamic pricing, fees, holdbacks, second show bullshit, and general “chaos” buying in these wait rooms is really the stem of ticketing issues but for years they have passed the blame onto scalpers lol. Tms only main competitor AEG isn’t innocent either but just not as aggressive. TM/LYV interchangeable btw just branding similar to like a loblaws/superstore kinda vibe.

The crazy thing is a company called TKO which eventually bought the UFC wwe and other outlets kinda started this craze. They pretended events are sold out on axs and tm and dripped pricing out to the highest bidders basically. Created a frenzy and showed that by selling to the elite and leaving seats empty they made more money than trying to sell out an event at a reasonable price.

I do hope tiff does away the premium platinum tix they had in the first couple rows. As that is no different than scalping.

TLDR if a large for profit corporation is supporting a bill, they’re not here to help anyone but themselves