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Wait, SongKick went out of business?

What the hell is the app installed on my phone, then?

Clicking through some of the links in the article, it looks like it refers to their ticketing operation which was apparently separate.

Ticketmaster bought them in 2018 as the first part of the settlement.

The bit that you can still see (ie. mobile app, website) is owned by Warner now actually, acquired by them in July 2017.

The bit that Ticketmaster/LN 'acquired' in 2018 was, by then, just a vehicle for the lawsuit related to this hack/other anti-competitive/monopolistic behaviour.

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