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Series · 2024–2024Ended

How Music Got Free

7.5·1 season·2 episodes·41 min avg.·United States of America

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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The Crime We All CommittedUp next
Jun 11, 2024·5.0

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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Internet Killed the Radio Star
Jun 11, 2024·5.0

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.

Cast

4 credited
Rhymefest
Self - Artist
Eminem
Self - Music Artist
Method Man
Self - Narrator (voice)
D
Dell
Self - CD Plant Employee/Pirating

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