How Music Got Free

Synopsis

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.

First Air Date: 2024-06-11

Last Air Date: 2024-06-11

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 2

Networks: Paramount+

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Top Cast

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

Seasons

Miniseries (2024)

No overview available for this season.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: The Crime We All Committed (2024-06-11)

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.
Ep. 2: Internet Killed the Radio Star (2024-06-11)

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.