How Music Got Free | Official Trailer | Paramount+

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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[BrandonAyong]

" I thought yahoo was a person " is the most eminem thing ever 😂😂😂

[JenkinsAnt]

"If they wanted me to be good, they woulda paid me more" 😂 I felt that.

[JustLoai]

The irony of me watching the documentary for free once it gets released 🤭

[lissi]

My old computer still see's a psychiatrist from the trauma I put it through at 14.

[benne]

There was no there great feeling in the world, when waking up...walking to your computer and to see everything you had downloading overnight, being completed at 100% hahaha.

[ijdgaf]

I'm about to watch this for free too

[moon.mp]

What a time to be alive. Shout out to Limewire for getting me paid in high school. 🤣

[eliporter]

I had a nice little hustle in college selling pirated music, DVDs, PS2 games, pirated software and modded consoles. I was the only person on campus selling full DVD rips for $5 while everyone else were selling telecine films for $10. That helped pay for my college!

[palimo]

50Cent always says his first album would have double the numbers if they counted the bootlegged sales lol

[jarrellmason]

If you weren't on Kazaa, Bear Share, Lime Wire, or Morpheus then this ain't for you. Also that modem dial up sound brought heavy flashbacks.

[rep]

CDs were so expensive in the 90s. If you weren't buying an older top 40 album that had been over printed you were paying at least 20 dollars. Imports were $50-$60 (where Im from anyways)

[BenCaesar]

“If they wanted me to be good they woulda paid me more” this bout to be the most quoted show 😅

[dnakatomiuk]

I was a Limewire man myself on a 56k dial up connection what would take me hours to get albums that's is seconds into todays world. Yet we now have streaming and im still surprised they still do CD albums

[thisiswhereiwatch]

If this documentary hails Spotify as the hero, I'm going to have a problem with it.

[themeanlesbeann]

I still buy the music of the artists who I love and wanna support. Everyone else I can just come right here to youtube and it's free. Record companies had their time but that's over.

[blackmesacake]

I used to make mixtapes for people in the early 2000s and sell em because i had a image burner in my CD writer 😂

[bantehayes]

The law needed to catch up. When it did, we compromised. Now we have Spotify.

[Skelovane]

Eminem thinking yahoo was a person is the most hilarious thing ever! 😂

[peaner]

Man i miss these times for real. Like there was a sweet spot where yeah people would download stuff but also buy the music, like CDs. Ofcourse us as people as a whole went and messed it up but technology was always gonna happen.

[adelsweezy]

Team Limewire & Emule we're here ! 😂