How Music Got Free

Miniseries

TV-14
83%
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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2 Episodes

  • The Crime We All Committed
    E1
    The Crime We All CommittedA 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.
  • Internet Killed the Radio Star
    E2
    Internet Killed the Radio StarAs 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 of Miniseries

  • RhymefestSelf - Artist
  • EminemSelf - Music Artist / Executive Producer
  • Method ManSelf - Narrator (voice)
  • DellSelf - CD Plant Employee/Pirating
  • Alex StapletonExecutive Producer
  • Steve StouteExecutive Producer
  • Stephen WittExecutive Producer
  • Paul RosenbergExecutive Producer
  • LeBron JamesExecutive Producer
  • Maverick CarterExecutive Producer
  • Jamal HendersonExecutive Producer
  • Philip ByronExecutive Producer
  • Bridgette TheriaultExecutive Producer
  • Dan SacksExecutive Producer
  • James ChapmanExecutive Producer
  • John JanickExecutive Producer
  • Anthony SeylerExecutive Producer
  • Steve BermanExecutive Producer
  • Bruce GillmerExecutive Producer
  • Michael ManiaciExecutive Producer

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