Episode 5 - Sport’s Napster Moment

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.

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