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How Music Got Free

How Music Got Free
★ 7.4/10•2024•41m•TV-14•Documentary•Crime
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Uncover the secrets behind the crime we all committed.

Details the fascinating, and often funny, inside story of the technology-driven disruption that changed music during the late-90s and early-2000s. File sharing technology, combined with the insatiable demand for new music, created both the means and the motive for millions of young people to participate in outright theft – and be celebrated for it.

StatusEnded
Runtime41m
LanguageEN
First Air DateJun 11, 2024

Episodes

Episode 1 - The Crime We All CommittedE141m

The Crime We All Committed

A small town CD-factory worker, Dell Glover, joins forces with teen hackers to pioneer internet piracy with MP3s, shaking the music industry’s early-2000s profits and reshaping the business forever; featuring Eminem, 50 Cent, Method Man and more.

Jun 11, 2024

Episode 2 - Internet Killed the Radio StarE241m

Internet Killed the Radio Star

As album sales drop, the music industry takes legal action against fans causing a PR nightmare; the FBI launches a major investigation against internet pirates and begins cracking down.

Jun 11, 2024

Actors

Rhymefest

Rhymefest

Self - Artist

Eminem

Eminem

Self - Music Artist

Method Man

Method Man

Self - Narrator (voice)

Dell

Self - CD Plant Employee/Pirating

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