Ticketmaster has also recently been getting in the habit of selling mass quantities of tickets to StubHub, and other legitimate scalper websites. So that means an innocent $15 ticket could get bumped up to $25 courtesy of Ticketmaster, and then sold on StubHub for yet an additional upcharge for $40 before the public even has access to it.

Solution:
I would say the best solution is to stop attending concerts, plays, and sporting events, but as an avid goer of all of the above, I don't think that's realistic. What is realistic, is if someone developed open source venue / ticketing software, thus eliminating the need for Ticketmaster to exist altogether.

Concert prices go down---tickets get sold easier, and those royalties that Ticketmaster was reaping get kept in house. Also BrownPaperTickets.com is a great place to start.

#4 AT&T
It should come at no surprise that a Telcom is on this list. Actually there are two. Here's what pisses me off about AT&T. They are kind of like that uncle at thanksgiving that always shows up because it's a family thing but no one wants to talk to. He's always asking for money and going up for seconds and thirds. You always wish you are sitting at the kids table when he pops in.

See what pisses me off about AT&T is that no matter how many times the government throws anti trust suits at them, trying to break them down, they keep doing everything they can to expand.

Not to mention all their wireless bullshit. When I mean bullshit. I mean BULLSHIT. They held customers accountable for contracts they didn't sign. They make changes to their contracts without telling their customers. They false advertise. Their policy is longer than the bible. Fuck them.

Solution:
Get a different cell phone provider.

#3 De Beers.
If you need empirical proof of shallowness in women, then by the sheer fact that De Beers exists should suffice. Perhaps that was too harsh. Not shallow, but extremely impractical.
For example my Y chromosome tells me that if a woman every spent 3 months salary to give me a rock I would probably pop a brain vessel trying to comprehend the idiocy of it. Buy me a hot tub full of tacos, a gold plated moped, take me camping in Siberia, ANYTHING but a useless stone.**

In any event if De Beers didn't have a sordid PR history of bribing Hollywood producers, to their oversaturation of bullshit ads, to oh I don't know, decades of violence in Africa resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, they probably wouldn't be on this list. But thus they are. What pisses me off more than anything is that I know someday I'll have to buy one of these stupid ass rocks. Maybe from these guys(gemesis.com).
For the true history of De Beers I recommend reading the De Beers chapter of "Twenty Ads That Shook the World."

Solution: This one is up to the women. Read up on what De Beers actually stands for, and what a diamond ring really means. Then tell your future husband it's not worth wasting 3 months salary on worthless rock. Make him take you to Paris instead.

**Okay Diamonds aren't completely useless. We have discovered in the last decade or so that diamonds can be really useful for processors. You still need a goofy looking monocle to tell the difference between a diamond and a cubic zirconia---so there's that.

# 2 Comcast
Oh man. My blood boils just thinking about Comcast. How many ways do I hate them? I actually haven't even given Comcast the benefit of the doubt with cable/internet. Their reputation is THAT bad. I won't even consider them. I think I mentioned before that I hate their commercials. Their service they provide is misleading. Their customer service was so bad that they got a 70 year old to tear apart their office with a fucking hammer.

But what I truly hate about them the most is how they like to drag their digital nuts across the first amendment and do everything they can to ruin network neutrality, just so they can price discriminate their users. That shit is unforgivable.

Solution:
Don't give them money. If your only choice is Comcast in your area, write furious letters to elected officials to demand a choice in internet/cable/phone providers.

#1 RIAA
There is a special place in hell reserved for anyone that takes home a paycheck from this organization. I don't think I can look at a company and condemn everyone, but I'm pissed off at the fricken custodians of this place. It should be no surprise that the RIAA comes in number one on this list, for the reason that, of all companies considered---they were the only ones that do ZERO positive whatseover. I mean, at least Comcast can help me email my grandma.

What exactly does the RIAA do? Well they "represent" recording artists, and by recording artists I mean studios. So all they do is sue for copyright infringement. They have won a single case so far, preferring to muscle single mothers and college students into settling. When they actually subpoena someone, their formula is incredibly deceptive to begin with, often suing someone from a different state than the ISP or offender, to slow the legal process.

They try to market themselves as a legitimate Government agency, but they are not. They are a legal consul organization serving music businesses. Nothing more. Furthermore, they have done everything they can to circumvent the judicial process. They also have been sued by artists and record labels because all that money they have made off settlements---never actually made it into the hands of the artists they allegedly represent. In short. The RIAA is nothing more than a money-making scam, and they belong in used car-dealer hell. Fuck them.

Solution:
Do nothing. Musicians are starting to figure out that they don't need record labels to produce and distribute their music anymore. Radiohead proved this when they had a successful album sell on a website that they hosted, where they let anyone name their own price. Other artists are following suit as well---hosting their own music on MySpace and distributing mp3's online without the help of a record label, iTunes, or any other DRM based software. Sooner or later record labels will die and thus there will be no one for the RIAA to represent. Prediction: In 5 years the RIAA is out on the street, performing solo gigs at Bar Mitzfahs.