How Music Got Free - Season 1 - Eps 2: Internet Killed the Radio Star
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.
About 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
Self - Artist
Eminem
Self - Music Artist
Method Man
Self - Narrator (voice)
Dell
Self - CD Plant Employee/Pirating
