The Federal Trade Commission and seven individual states sued concert and ticketing giants Live Nation and Ticketmaster on Thursday over allegations that the company is coordinating with ticket scalpers by allowing them to skirt limitations on ticket purchases so they can resell them at major markups on the secondary market.

In the 84-page suit, filed in federal court in California on Thursday, the FTC and the attorneys general of Virginia, Utah, Florida, Tennessee, Nebraska, Illinois and Colorado allege that Live Nation and Ticketmaster (both of which operate under parent company Live Nation Entertainment) “knowingly allow, and in fact even encourage, brokers to use multiple Ticketmaster accounts to circumvent Ticketmaster’s own security measures and access control systems” so that

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