TV Show

How Music Got Free

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.

TV Show Stats +8%

1 seasons

2 episodes total

Status

Ended

First Aired

2024

Rating

TV Show

7.5/10

8 votes • HD

Season 1

2 episodes
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The Crime We All Committed
Episode 1

The Crime We All Committed

Episode 1 • Jun 11, 2024

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.

5.0
41m
Internet Killed the Radio Star
Episode 2

Internet Killed the Radio Star

Episode 2 • Jun 11, 2024

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.

5.0
41m