How Music Got Free

Uncover the secrets behind the crime we all committed.

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.

Genre: Documentary,

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Country: United States of America,

Type: tv

Season: 1

Episode: N/A

Duration: 41 minutes

Release: 2024-06-11

Rating: 8.2

Season 1 - How Music Got Free
2024-06-11
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.
2024-06-11
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.