Ticketmaster privacy policy blasted

People buying tickets online through Ticketmaster may be surprised to find themselves receiving spam as an encore. The ticket service, which holds a lock on advance ticket sales for most major entertainment events, is taking heat from consumers for a privacy policy that does not let online ticket buyers opt out of receiving e-mail pitches from an event’s producers and other businesses associated with it. That, Ticketmaster critics say, means that the company has made receiving spam part of the price of admission.

 “I HAVE ONLY bought a single ticket from Ticketmaster, many years ago,” wrote one customer on an online discussion board devoted to the privacy policy. “Since that purchase, I have received tons of ‘targeted’ e-mail personalized with my full name, the city, etc ... For now, I do everything I can to avoid ticket purchases from Ticketmaster (and have been successful).”

http://www.msnbc.com/news/949249.asp?0cv=CB20

I don't know anything about Ticketmaster but reading what kind of monopoly they have been given, I guess they are owned by either the Mafia or the Legalized Mafia, Politicians.

http://darkerxdarker.tripod.com/

They now own ticketmaster...does this explain a few things???