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Episode 5 - Sport’s Napster Moment
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Twenty-five years ago illegal file-sharing platform Napster transformed the music industry.
Though it was short-lived in its initial iteration, it showed there was a new model for music, and was the precursor for legal platforms that offered cheap, accessible music for the masses – the likes of Spotify, Apple Music and Deezer.
However, it also triggered a cataclysmic decline in music industry revenues, bottoming out at $7bn in 2014 from $21bn in 1999.
Are we about to see history repeating itself for sport?
Writer and Producer: Matt Cutler
Editor: Richard Gillis
The Pirates vs The Premier League is a series by Unofficial Partner Productions.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
7 episodes
Manage episode 375198223 series 3502081
Twenty-five years ago illegal file-sharing platform Napster transformed the music industry.
Though it was short-lived in its initial iteration, it showed there was a new model for music, and was the precursor for legal platforms that offered cheap, accessible music for the masses – the likes of Spotify, Apple Music and Deezer.
However, it also triggered a cataclysmic decline in music industry revenues, bottoming out at $7bn in 2014 from $21bn in 1999.
Are we about to see history repeating itself for sport?
Writer and Producer: Matt Cutler
Editor: Richard Gillis
The Pirates vs The Premier League is a series by Unofficial Partner Productions.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
7 episodes
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