Elliot Lawry
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I mean, it's not the board game.
It is the board game.
And that's actually a good example because when you think about it, when you're playing that game, the goal to win is to control as much of the board as possible.
And that in itself is not necessarily illegal.
There's plenty of big companies in plenty of industries that control
majority of that industry.
But when it becomes illegal is when a company starts using that power to basically make it really expensive for consumers and also not improving the product.
So in the case of something like the concert industry, it's making things more expensive to go to the concert and not making it better.
And they've got no incentive to do so.
And here in Australia, we've got something called antitrust laws.
They're the same laws that are in the US that are
And that is basically to monitor companies and when it starts to get to that point when they're abusing their power, the government will step in and use these laws.
You are our Swifty correspondent on the ground here at TVA.
So I think you are the person for the task.
It's not necessarily that it was a Taylor Swift only incident.
That kind of thing was happening all the time with a lot of artists.
But I think the scale of the demand for Taylor Swift tickets was so high in the US that when no one was able to buy tickets, and you know, there was all these allegations that