How Music Got Free(2024)

series - first aired/released 2024-06-11 - audience 7.5

Directed by Alex Stapleton

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.