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NEW - Throwback Thursday: The Music Pirates Lost. The Artists Still Lose
Season 2 Episode 200
Everybody who built an MP3 library remembers the tools. Winamp, Napster, the slow crawl of dial-up giving way to broadband fast enough to actually st…
7 hours ago
ICYMI - Napster Broke the Music Industry. Then Became It
Season 2 Episode 200
Music industry commentator Eric Alper on the two years that permanently rewired how the world hears music, and why the streaming subscription you pay…
10 hours ago
SHIFTHEADS: Why Ottawa Won't Like the Answer on Food Prices
Season 2 Episode 200
Food professor Sylvain Charlebois on why Canadian grocery prices are so high, what a Lidl store in Cork, Ireland reveals about what we're actually pa…
10 hours ago
NEW - The Lawsuit That Made Spotify Possible
Season 2 Episode 200
Twenty million users in year one. Eighty million at the peak. Then a lawsuit took Napster down in about six months. This one walks through how a plat…
13 hours ago
Shiftheads - Electric Car Owners Are Cashing Alberta's Gas Cheque
Season 2 Episode 200
Instead of cutting the gas tax, Alberta sent residents a flat hundred dollar cheque, and the math broke almost immediately. Journalist Rob Breakenrid…
13 hours ago
Why Spotify Started Out Just as Shady as Napster
Season 2 Episode 200
Twenty-five years after Napster got shut down, the company that replaced it built its own empire on a strikingly similar shortcut. Tech expert Carmi …
16 hours ago
NEW - Why Your Brain Makes Falling More Likely With Age
Season 2 Episode 200
Falls aren't accidents. Aging and balance science now shows exactly why older adults are more vulnerable — and the answer is inside the brain. Dr. Sa…
19 hours ago
ICYMI: Napster Died. The Hunger It Created Didn't
Season 2 Episode 200
Writer and historian Ed Conroy on what Napster actually opened up for music fans beyond the free, and why the resentment and entitlement it created h…
19 hours ago
Movie Memoribilia: $500K for a Valentine's Card. $1M for Scrap Metal
Season 2 Episode 200
Film critic Richard Crouse on the auction that is about to put Luke Skywalker's lightsaber, Rocky's boots, the Wicked Witch's hat, and John Lennon's …
19 hours ago
NEW - Tonight: He-Man Was Recruiting Kids for Satan. Apparently
Season 2 Episode 199
The satanic panic of the 1980s turned rock music, Dungeons and Dragons, and Ouija boards into instruments of the devil. Tonight the target is He-Man,…
1 day, 7 hours ago