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Well, kind of extraordinary to have a consent decree running for such a long period of time and have you not even fight it in court.

You are forcing everybody who just wants to get this ticket on the resale market who has not bought from you, Mr. Berchtold, to begin with.

This is how monopolies work.

I just worry about the effect on consumers and prices.

So you could only--let me just be clear about the way this works. You could only resell it through the Ticketmaster ecosystem. Is that right?

What it sounds like is a data industrial complex.

How does the resale of the SafeTix, how does the resale with another entity, let us say StubHub just for illustrative purposes, how does that work?

Do you have any plans to restrict the resalability of digital tickets through third-party entities like StubHub or others?

It means that Ticketmaster-Live Nation is a monopolist whose conduct needs to be supervised.