How Music Got Free

How Music Got Free

Uncover the secrets behind the crime we all committed.

Ended First aired 11/Jun/2024 United States English 1 season(s) 2 episode(s)
DocumentaryCrime
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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Season 1 · Miniseries
2 episode(s) · Air date: 11/Jun/2024
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Internet Killed the Radio Star
Air date: 11/Jun/2024 · Runtime: 41 min
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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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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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The Crime We All Committed
Air date: 11/Jun/2024 · Runtime: 41 min
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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.

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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.

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Rhymefest
Rhymefest
Self - Artist
Eminem
Eminem
Self - Music Artist
Method Man
Method Man
Self - Narrator (voice)
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Dell
Self - CD Plant Employee/Pirating
Steve Stoute
Steve Stoute
Self - Producer, Writer and Former President Sony Music
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Rodney
Self - CD Plant Employee/Pirating

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Alex Stapleton
Alex Stapleton
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Anthony Seyler
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Bridgette Theriault
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Bruce Gillmer
Bruce Gillmer
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Dan Sacks
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Eminem
Eminem
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Jamal Henderson
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James Chapman
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John Janick
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LeBron James
LeBron James
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Maverick Carter
Maverick Carter
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Michael Maniaci
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