More woes for Ticketmaster via its secondary ticketing spin off TicketsNow. The resale service has entered into an agreement with the Illinois Attorney General regarding how it markets its online touting operations. The AG's office objected to the way the secondary ticketing firm registered special URLs for certain artists that implied web pages offering touted tickets were, in fact, primary ticket shops.
TicketsNow has agreed to never do that again (in Illinois, at least) and to pay a $50,000 fine for past naughtiness. As much previously reported, the Ticketmaster subsidiary has come under much criticism in the US, especially for the way its touting services are marketed. None of which has been good news for Ticketmaster as it tries to get regulator approval for its merger with Live Nation.