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How Music Got Free

How Music Got Free

Alex Stapleton

2024

  • Documentary
6.1

The fascinating, and often hilarious, inside story of the technology-driven disruption that changed music in the late '90s and early 2000s," according to The Hollywood Reporter. The documentary looks at the technology that made it possible for millions of young people to quench their thirst for new music by simply downloading it for free.

Cast & crew

  • Alex StapletonDirector
  • EminemSelf
  • 50 CentSelf
  • Rocsi DiazSelf
  • Method ManSelf
  • Steve StouteSelf
  • TimbalandSelf
  • RhymefestSelf
  • Hillary RosenSelf

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