How Music Got Free

Name: How Music Got Free
Released: 2024-06-11
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Rhymefest, Eminem, Method Man, Dell

7.5

June 11, 2024

1 Season • 2 Episodes

Ended

Documentary Crime

"Uncover the secrets behind the crime we all committed."

Overview

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.

Cast

Rhymefest

Self - Artist

Eminem

Self - Music Artist

Method Man

Self - Narrator (voice)

Dell

Self - CD Plant Employee/Pirating

Episodes

1. The Crime We All Committed

June 11, 2024 • 41m

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.

5.0

2. Internet Killed the Radio Star

June 11, 2024 • 41m

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.

5.0

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