How Music Got Free

How Music Got Free

Uncover the secrets behind the crime we all committed.

TV-14 Limited Series 2024 · 2 eps · ★ 7.4 · Documentary, Crime

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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.

Directed by Alex Stapleton

Network: Paramount+

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

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