How Music Got Free premieres June 11th exclusively on Paramount+.
Uncover the secrets behind the crime we all committed. From executive producers Marshall “Eminem” Mathers, LeBron James, Maverick Carter, Paul Rosenberg and Steve Stoute and produced by Warner Bros. Unscripted Television/Telepictures in association with SpringHill, Interscope Films, and Shady Films, How Music Got Free 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.
From New York City, to Los Angeles, to the small factory town of Shelby, North Carolina, the two-part series features the quirky genius of the heretofore-unknown “pirates,” the drama of the FBI investigations and convictions, and the frontline accounts of music’s biggest artists and executives. An unbelievable story of cunning, illegality, celebrity, and innovation, these are the events that changed the music industry forever. Narrated by Method Man, the series features interviews with Eminem, 50 Cent, Timbaland, Jimmy Iovine, Rocsi Diaz, Rhymefest, Steve Stoute and more.
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We supsto feel sad or somthing for em?! gimme a fucken breakkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk cant wait to watch this for free
Napster or LimeWire?
Nah don’t blame the pirates!! But imma watch it
Only Eminem would think that yahoo was a person 😂😂😂
Em looks like Fidel Castro
They should have been ahead of the game. 😂
I still pirate music (FLAC) almost daily.
Then comes Spotify
Why should we pay for something we are programmed 2 like in an unfair evil greedy business? The best artists of all time don't even get paid anyway and if they do, 90% is the labels. People don't just happen to like drake more than Rakim, it's the fact that society is dumbed down purposely
I hope one of the two has only Lars in it
I will watch this documentary using torrents bro. sorry dawg !
Dunno about songs leaking, more worried about eminems tv makup leaking in 2024.
Spotify is the greatest invention of the 20th plus century. greatest ever.
this seems so out of touch with today ?
His Name Is! His Name Is! His Name Is. YAHOO!!!
Holy cringe
Can't wait to seeeeeeeeeeeeee it!!
Twisted truth. We are the product.
No interview with Lars Ulrich? Lol
Eminem didnt understand the internet so he didn't realize it took 43 minutes to download a 128kbps low quality song and half way thru it's bill clinton
Lars Ulrich had better be in this series
I love how its so easy to get any music these days. I was raised on 8 track and cassette tapes. the internet is not my favorite place but I do enjoy listening to any thing I want whenever I want. and not having to pay 15 bucks an album is great. just my you tube favorites music wise is in the thousands
Yeah whatever – never ever will I feel any sympathy for them – GET ON STAGE – PERFORM – WORK! Make your money there – music SHOULD be free!
the book was really cool and marvelous
Soulja Boy Won
No wonder LeBron keeps talking about the Deluxe Edition.
lol 😂music is still free.
I got me a free Mary j blige CD still to this day I ain't ashamed cd man came through.
Team Limewire & Emule we're here ! 😂
😂He said " if they wanted me to be good, they would have paid me MORE"🤣🤣
@0:04 – Jerry "Yahoo" Yang is a person, a legend in the history of the internet.
Lol the pirates won, i got all the music in Nigeria
everyone just go do what taylor swift did and we'll stream your versions instead. we don't want the record labels to get the money we just have no choice.
Music is still free. You can listen to 90 percent of any song on Spotify for 9.99 a month. That’s pretty free too me
Nice
IM1MUSIC
Did they take an English class for the title?
Fascinating!
AVP 👽
Haaa sweet / I bet / just checking on ya / … well come back / but / they were mad 😡 /they couldn't get away with it / but who was telling on you ,/ who caught you / and how ?
Still the same with Spotify,
0.0003 dollars for a stream?
Artists are still fcked
I make feature films with tens of millions of views and I haven't seen one penny between corrupt distributors and community guidelines. You cannot make original art and make money anymore. Those days fled.
so, now the artists continue to be stolen, but now by legal corporations like Spotify or Youtube, earning billons and paying pennies…
Irrelevant
FINALLY! I've been telling people for years how we need to protect the monetization of our art and products.
The Vinyl Album came with a jacket (that sometimes opened up), it gave you photos, lyrics, productions notes, & sometimes you'd get a poster in there. & it was way cheaper,.. Then came the Cassette Tape and it had less goodies, in a smaller format, you needed a magnifying glass to read the details (no poster could fit in there, so don't expect it) Lol. Then the CD fell off the back of the truck.. first it was boxed and you got some goodies in that box – like a booklet, DVD with videos.. then they stopped boxing it.. and you just got the CD in the case.. BUT most of the time it COST WAY MORE, & the Price kept RISING (because of the quality – you can't see it, but i'm rolling my eyes). I always told people "with the amount of money i spend on music, i could have bought a few houses". With the CD, it was one of the first times they shoved "You can't copy", down your throat for something you paid for.. "DON'T SHARE" (its not a book, you're not a library Lol).. we were villainized for sharing our own property that we paid for.. & then the whole deal changed when computers blew up. "DON'T COPY" But they were selling writable CDs that you could use for copying.. Yeah, its confusing. Same confusion with DVDs.. oh yeah, and that thing called the computer kept advancing the confusion with software that could pirate everything.. and you could find software to do that COPY Sh!t in high quality.. So, "How music got free". Well, we could even get it free back in the day by popping a tape in the Boombox.. and pressing record.. But nobody got mentally disturbed, because that didn't make sales go down.. So then.. along came this platform that you are currently reading this comment on.. and what did they began to do.. Provide a platform to PUT ARTIST HARD WORK ONLINE (a lot of times before it was even released).. and THEY want to ask how music got free.. How about "When did they say it was OK, to start giving it away????" because they are giving it away..!!! You don't even have to go to the library for old music anymore.. are there still record stores.. Lol. And the evolution of technology is an accomplice.. its not going backwards y'all..