netflix avatar
How Music Got Freewatch trailer

How Music Got Free

41min

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.

Production Companies

Shady Films

Telepictures

Interscope Films

MTV Entertainment Studios

The SpringHill Company

Episodes

Cast

Season 1

The Crime We All Committed

1. The Crime We All Committed

41min

11th Jun 2024

A 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.

Internet Killed the Radio Star

2. Internet Killed the Radio Star

41min

11th Jun 2024

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.

First air date

11th Jun 2024

Last air date

11th Jun 2024

Status

Ended

Type

Miniseries

Original language

en

Networks