How Music Got Free - Season 1 - Eps 2: Internet Killed the Radio Star

2024-06-1141 min⭐ 8.2/10

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.

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About How Music Got Free

How Music Got Free

Title: How Music Got Free

First Air Date: 2024-06-11

Last Air Date: 2024-06-11

Status: Ended

Rating: 8.2/10 (from 5 votes)

Language: EN

Seasons: 1

Total Episodes: 2

Network: Paramount+

Genres: Documentary

Production Companies: Shady Films, Telepictures, Interscope Films, MTV Entertainment Studios, The SpringHill Company

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.

Cast

Rhymefest

Rhymefest

Self - Artist

Eminem

Eminem

Self - Music Artist

Method Man

Method Man

Self - Narrator (voice)

Dell

Dell

Self - CD Plant Employee/Pirating

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