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How Music Got Free

2024-06-11 · 41 min / episode · ★ 7.4

Documentary · Crime

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
Status
Ended

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RhymefestRhymefestSelf - Artist
EminemEminemSelf - Music Artist
Method ManMethod ManSelf - Narrator (voice)
DellSelf - CD Plant Employee/Pirating

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