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Episode 5 - Sport’s Napster Moment

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
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