How Music Got Free

Uncover the secrets behind the crime we all committed.

TV-142024•41m•7.5/10

DocumentaryCrime

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7.5/10(8)

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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Production

Shady Films, Telepictures, Interscope Films, MTV Entertainment Studios, The SpringHill Company

Language

Status

Ended

First Aired

June 11, 2024

Last Aired

June 11, 2024

Networks

Paramount+

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Seasons & Episodes

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Season

The Crime We All Committed

Air date: 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.

Internet Killed the Radio Star

Air date: 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.