How Music Got Free
Uncover the secrets behind the crime we all committed.
- 2024
- Ended
- Documentary · Crime
- ~41m / ep
- 1 season
- 7.5/10
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.
Latest: Miniseries · 2024
View all seasonsE1. The Crime We All Committed
Jun 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.
E2. Internet Killed the Radio Star
Jun 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.
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