They wrote: “In the face of those adverse rulings, Songkick has been forced to conjure up a new set of dubious arguments and theories, resulting in the amended complaint they recently filed.
Live Nation and Ticketmaster responded to the new allegations saying that a “significant portion” of Songkick’s original anti-trust action had been dismissed by the court. Mead also told his team at Ticketmaster: “Feel free to screen-grab the hell out of system.” In emails from 2014, Mead wrote: “I must stress that this is access to a live CS tool I would be careful in what you click on as it would be best not the giveaway that we are snooping around. The reports also shockingly included the username and passwords to three artists “toolboxes” on crowdsurge which included personal data for the customers.
The documents Mead kept on his computer included confidential business plans, strategic and financial information, contracts, client lists, and dozens of user names and passwords to confidential CrowdSurge tools, according to the suit.Īccording to emails used in the litigation Mead was providing reports to Ticketmaster about CrowdSurge to compare the two platforms. Songkick found during their investigation that Mead had retained 85,000 company documents on his laptop after leaving his job at Crowdsurge. The suit explains that Ticketmaster were able to gain access to the artists that CrowdSurge hoped to work with allowing Ticketmaster to steal business from these artists. An amended complaint in Songkick’s ongoing anti-trust lawsuit accuses Ticketmaster of using an ex-employee to “hack” into Crowdsurge’s (now combined with Songkick) database and steal information.Īccording to the complaint, Ticketmaster hired a top executive at CrowdSurge, Stephen Mead, and then used his old password to take real-time information about the company’s plans. Ticketmaster have been facing legal challenges from smaller ticketing companies for years now, and the battle just got turned to 11.
The battle between Songkick and Ticketmaster continues as Songkick claim Live Nation’s ticketing company used an old password to steal information.
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