How Music Got Free
β 7.4 Β· 2024 Β· 41m Β· Documentary Β· Crime
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 β and be celebrated for it.
Episodes
1. The Crime We All Committed41m Β· A small town CD-factory worker, Dell Glover, joins forces with teen hackers to pioneer internet piracy with MP3s, shaking the music industryβs early-2000s profits and reshaping the business forever; featuring Eminem, 50 Cent, Method Man and more.
2. Internet Killed the Radio Star41m Β· 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.More Like This
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