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From stealing to Spotify: the story behind how music got free
A two-part docuseries looks back at the history of piracy and how the music industry found itself in such a precarious place
Two factors played into that: the companies’ ability to persuade fans to buy their entire collections again in the new format, and the sky-high prices they set for CDs, which often cost twice as much as vinyl releases or cassettes. In 1969, such thinking led fans at Woodstock and the Isle of Wright festivals to tear down the gates and pour into the venue without paying, actions encouraged by the naive ideologies of the day. ‘The real innovative minds here were a bunch of rogue teenagers and a guy working a blue-collar factory job in the tiny town of Shelby, North Carolina,’ said director Alex Stapleton.
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