How Music Got Free
2024 - 2024
7.5 (8)
41 min
English
Uncover the secrets behind the crime we all committed.
1 season, 2 episodes
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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- Status
- Ended
- Production
- Shady Films, Telepictures, Interscope Films, MTV Entertainment Studios
Keywords
- piracy
- copyright
- miniseries
- law enforcement
- file sharing
- social change
- music industry
- music piracy
- music documentary
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Top Cast
Rhymefest as Self - Artist
Eminem as Self - Music Artist
Method Man as Self - Narrator (voice)
Dell as Self - CD Plant Employee
Top Crew
LeBron James · Executive Producer
Bridgette Theriault · Executive Producer
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