

How Music Got Free
2024-06-11 · 41 min / episode · ★ 7.4
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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- Shady Films, Telepictures, Interscope Films, MTV Entertainment Studios, The SpringHill Company
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- United States of America
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RhymefestSelf - Artist
EminemSelf - Music Artist
Method ManSelf - Narrator (voice)Title information and images are supplied by TMDb. Explore our discovery guide for advice on comparing metadata and legal viewing options.
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