How Music Got Free
How Music Got Free
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How Music Got Free

Uncover the secrets behind the crime we all committed.

7.5 / 10
2024
1 season
2 episodes
DocumentaryCrime

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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Seasons

  • The Crime We All Committed

    1.The Crime We All Committed

    5.0
    11-06-202441m

    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...

  • Internet Killed the Radio Star

    2.Internet Killed the Radio Star

    5.0
    11-06-202441m

    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...

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