How Music Got Free
S1 · E1IMDB:
7.5
Released
6/11/2024
Duration
0h 41m
Genre
Documentary, Crime
Country
United States of America
Cast
Rhymefest, Eminem, Method Man
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.
How Music Got Free
Season 1 · Episode 1IMDB:
7.5Released
6/11/2024
Genre
Documentary, Crime
Cast
Rhymefest, Eminem, Method Man
Duration
0h 41m
Country
United States of America
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.
Episodes
EP 1AvailableThe 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.
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.
EP 2AvailableInternet 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.
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.
Cast
Self - Artist
Rhymefest
Self - Music Artist
Eminem
Self - Narrator (voice)
Method Man
Self - CD Plant Employee/Pirating
