How Music Got Free (2024–2024)
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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.
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- 01
The Crime We All CommittedA small town CD-factory worker, Dell Glover, joins forces with teen hackers to pioneer internet piracy with MP3s, shaking the music industry’s early-2000s profits and reshaping the business forever; featuring Eminem, 50 Cent, Method Man and more. - 02
Internet Killed the Radio StarAs 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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- S01E01The Crime We All CommittedJune 11, 2024A small town CD-factory worker, Dell Glover, joins forces with teen hackers to pioneer internet piracy with MP3s, shaking the music industry
- S01E02Internet Killed the Radio StarJune 11, 2024As album sales drop, the music industry takes legal action against fans causing a PR nightmare; the FBI launches a major investigation again
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