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How Music Got Free

How Music Got Free

S1 · E1

IMDB:

7.5
How Music Got Free

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.

Episodes

The Crime We All CommittedEP 1Available

The Crime We All Committed

41m5.0

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.

Internet Killed the Radio StarEP 2Available

Internet Killed the Radio Star

41m5.0

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

Rhymefest

Self - Artist

Rhymefest

Eminem

Self - Music Artist

Eminem

Method Man

Self - Narrator (voice)

Method Man

Dell

Self - CD Plant Employee/Pirating

Dell

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