How Music Got Free

"Uncover the secrets behind the crime we all committed."

8.2(5 votes)

2024 - 2024

41m per episode

Ended1 Season2 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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Show Details

Network:

Paramount+

Country:US

Languages

Original:en

Spoken:

English

Seasons

Miniseries

2 episodes

2024

Cast

Rhymefest

Self - Artist

Eminem

Self - Music Artist

Method Man

Self - Narrator (voice)

Dell

Self - CD Plant Employee/Pirating

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