How Music Got Free

7.5
202441m

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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.

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Official Trailer

Seasons

2 Episodes • Premiered 2024

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1. The Crime We All Committed

5.0

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.

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2. Internet Killed the Radio Star

5.0

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.

Cast

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Rhymefest

Self - Artist

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Eminem

Self - Music Artist

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Method Man

Self - Narrator (voice)

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