How Music Got Free

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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.

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

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Miniseries2024

7.68221h 24m

	Ep	Title	Rating	Votes	Runtime
▶	1	The Crime We All Committed	7.6	43	42 min
▶	2	Internet Killed the Radio Star	7.6	39	42 min

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Cast

Eminem Self

Method Man

Rocsi Diaz

Timbaland

Steve Stoute

Hillary Rosen

Rhymefest

Riggs Morales

Stephen Witt

Della Glover

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