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 😂😂😂

[@Namibia_Diagnostics]

Bro 😂😂

[@chronicillz1879]

that new album is gonna insaaaaaane

[@MindTrickedX24]

Shout-out to Yahoo Serious! (Actual person.)

[@lilfridge5652]

Facts bro is an absolute genius but stuff to do with computers.... forget it. He's such an old head and I love it.

[@keiththebat1]

EM thought an MP3 was a STD 😆

[@JustLoai93]

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

[@burnacco]

bro 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@ShitTot]

yep. if you know where to go on the internet, all media is pretty much free. Only real limitation is your hard drive space and internet speed.

[@marcfrederic1168]

😂😂😂😂

[@keiththebat1]

Real

[@Dezzyyx]

😂

[@benne1016]

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.

[@smokenojoke8182]

Must be nice. Someone would have to use the phone in my house, so I’d have to log off.

[@trg-7506]

maaaaaan 😂😂😅

[@MESSEDUPWORLD30]

Oh man. I remember that. I had limewire and I downloaded hundreds of my favorite songs. This was back in like 2006 2007. Man I miss being a teenager. Good times.

[@days7087]

Right 😂​@@smokenojoke8182

[@djfusionkotb]

When you think you downloaded 50 Cent Get Rich Or Die Trying album only to find out you downloaded Souljas Boys Crank Dat 16 times.

[@JenkinsAnt]

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

[@Emeraldtrinket]

This is honestly the most depressing thing in the trailer. You will only be good for profit. He may not of been being paid a fair wage but this is a crazy thing to say out loud.

[@JALee8]

@@Emeraldtrinket That's probably going to be the most understandable line in the show.

[@tuckerbugeater]

@@Emeraldtrinket what is good?

[@Emeraldtrinket]

@@tuckerbugeater depends the context but usually what’s beneficial for the community. Most people don’t feel stealing is good for the community. Doing what’s beneficial for you and detrimental to others usually isn’t considered good.

[@Saint.B]

From the looks of it he’s still not doing good😂 so he did all of that for nothing

[@lissi88]

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

[@THEDOORIZCLOSED]

We both in therapy, I actually met your computer there cuz i had to go cuz mine put me through trauma when i was sittin there for 14 hours waiting for my songs to download

[@eltravos99]

Limewire

[@Crashj7f67h]

@@eltravos99 The virus capital of the music software

[@kblam1001]

And Frost wire.

[@TerraBou-eg8yz]

Righhhttt 😅💯

[@ijdgaf]

I'm about to watch this for free too

[@tt67791]

Ahahahaha

[@V3N0MGAM1NG]

beat me to it hahahaha

[@BigWilt2000]

Same here 😂😂😂

[@ShaneJoshua1980]

😂😂😂

[@eugenedavis6792]

You're paying for using your Internet and that isn't free!

[@moon.mp3201]

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

[@franklin8618]

But Limewire caused sooooo many viruses that killed my computer 😂

[@varunaX]

@@franklin8618 oh yeah for sure. i remember downloading the matrix from livewire and it was 42kb.

[@Shane-mp8nz]

@@franklin8618lol same along with bearshare. 😂

[@WhyUCryiing]

Had to decipher the songs from the viruses

[@gostfalcon]

I remember

[@thisiswhereiwatch]

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

[@jarrellmason9080]

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.

[@ProspereOne]

Downloading hit em up but when you play it it goes YOOoUUUU superman that hoe!

[@KatalistProductionsKozzySasha]

Was on MIRC, even better :) Where the group/scene rips for albums came from alot of the time before they hit Napster, Limewire, etc... Except for the albums that people ripped themselves.

[@Darkwalker10000]

Napster predates all those. Also like the commenter above said, MIRC and USENET were where the real stuff came from.

[@AK-jw7rx]

I didn't use any of that but if you remember that happening in the 90s, this looks like a great Doc. Esp if you are an Eminem fan. Too bad it's on a steaming service most don't have, which is definitely NOT free 😂

[@chilly6470]

Limewire 😂😂 I never want to hear of that software again.

[@happyatheists9361]

Yahoo was a person 😂

[@NickRichards]

There was a guy named Yahoo, at that time. He was I think a comedy actor. Young Eminem must have conflated them. Yahoo Serious (born Greg Pead)

[@eugenedavis6792]

When Yahoo first came out I thought they was talking about a drink.

[@NickRichards]

@@eugenedavis6792 awesome

[@One21Jiggawatts]

@@NickRichards actor, writer and director of Young Einstein.

[@eliporter3980]

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!

[@silent1033]

Bro hide they coming for you

[@ArtofLunatik]

🤫🤐

[@dubbthamayor9485]

"Telecine" ahh yes a man of culture lol those were the good days lol

[@THEDOORIZCLOSED]

No but fr! This was a thing. My uncle was always giving us bootleg copies of movies

[@EricTheBroBean]

Telecine, the horrendous TC releases lol

[@palimo3653]

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

[@thereluv168]

As Clive Davis the head of Arista records said, The music industry had the opportunity to make music more affordable but they chose not to and this was the result.

[@joeybaseball7352]

That can apply to everything. Especially healthcare and housing. Those are rights that should be free for all Americans.

[@lennoxraynewood2741]

How is a $15-$20 cd not affordable? I’ve never stolen music in my entire life. I listened to the radio stations, I bought my favorite artists cd’s when they came out at the record store and played them in my Walkman, I bought used cd’s at pawnshops for a $1 and now I have an iPod and pay my iTunes bill every month. People are given four - six months notice when an artist is dropping a new album you can’t save a couple dollars every month then go buy it at the store?

[@thereluv168]

@@lennoxraynewood2741 Before downloading came along I do recall that a big complaint back in the day was the profit margin on c.d.’s which was massive because they were so cheap to make and did not justify the asking price at the record stores.

[@gadget00]

$17-20 for a CD with ONLY 2 good songs was highway robbery; instead of embracing technology early, they fought against it until people just started to pirate music just for fun and embarrassing the record labels. Then Apple appeared and put the final nail in the coffin with iTunes

[@BenCaesar]

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

[@blackmesacake5361]

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

[@scandelez]

Sounds like you’re the problem.

[@blackmesacake5361]

@@scandelez gonna cry?

[@JWickyJr13]

Five bucks a pop!

[@blackmesacake5361]

@@JWickyJr13 even ten sometimes if the mood was right haha

[@n1ghost421]

@@scandelezWas* the problem because no one really buys CD’s anymore to be honest

[@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

[@diogojordao414]

"hey wanna see (introduce movie name)? Give me 5 and a half days and i got it" 😂

[@mr2_mike]

​@@diogojordao414to find out its a theatre filming with people coughing and walking in front.

[@dnakatomiuk]

@@diogojordao414 Yeah that was it lol, any chance you can get my Eminem's new album errr give me 3 days

[@bantehayes9973]

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

[@burnacco]

this 👆

[@jamber007]

This comment is Golden and needs to be published all over the world.

[@okej5652]

@@jamber007lol relax

[@meladgoat]

spotify sucks. a world where they can take down the music whenever they want is wack. a lot of songs are not on spotify and don't forget about the ads. burning a cd and having it forever and something you can hold is iconic.

[@Scantronacon]

@@meladgoat This is truth, if u never made a mix cd for someone or for a night drive then you just dont get it and now spotify doin the same monopoly as the cds. KZbin/soundcloud could have widgets easily be added on xbox and ps5, no one else finds that weird?

[@rep1979]

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)

[@RocStarr913]

Because of the currency ratios of the other countries.

[@JWickyJr13]

The great irony is that this killed physical media stores but helped more and more artists because you no longer even needed a label or to release a full album to potentially have a big hit. That said I was a Limewire boi growing up.

[@peterkovic2241]

You're joking, right?

[@drgribb]

Spotify seems like a worse model for artists. Doing your own marketing is a lot of work. Labels were greedy, which led to the collapse of the industry, but the public now is complacent with a model that allows them to benefit from something that takes advantage of and abuses artists. It's not necessarily better now, it almost feels worse. And few value ownership of music now, or the value of a complete album, not designed to be cut up into individual tracks for maximizing streams and streaming profits.

[@GiantsJets718]

I hate Spotify, I don’t like any type of streaming place I like having the actual files

[@heythere6983]

It really made things worse than ever .

[@V3N0MGAM1NG]

you know as an artist we get paid $0.003-$0.005 per stream which after paying for everything else you can't make any money back from music unless you do tours, live performances and merch. it's worse than ever but i have to say i was also a limewire boi growing up haha.

[@julianocs87]

So, who's gonna watch it for free the second it gets released?

[@bennieglover8196]

ALREADY SAW IT LOL

[@JDazell]

From the moment a piece of music was put on a website, it would have been uploaded as an audio file type, The record companies should have seen the long road ahead and put 2+2 together. If they had perceived that if music can be heard from anywhere in the world by thr world wide Web as a file type then it was only a matter of time that people could listen to entire collections of music as file types. Then just as we have a plurality of streaming services for production companies (HBO max, Paramount +, Netflix) record companies would have created subscription models for accessing their entire record collections online (an EMI Music subscription etc). But instead record companies continued to sell CDs of albums that had 8-10 tracks for 15.99 - Napster didn't ruin the record industry, record companies failed to see the road ahead and act accordingly. Napster did exactly what the moment asked for ahead or the curve. Instead of record labels dominating the streaming services they are subservient to Spotify and Apple Music

[@Ocelot006]

How would that have stopped piracy? ‘Oh I’m not gonna steal this music if I know I can pay for a subscription instead!’

[@NKWTI]

Basically, I don’t see any answer other than Steve Jobs, he’s the one that went to all record companies and said basically “I can get fans to pay for music, but there’s just no convenient way digitally yet, and I believe they actually WANT to buy it” and pitched them signing on to allow it in the iTunes store, because of him and the iPod to facilitate it in a way that was more robust than previous mp3 players, this eventually lead to the concept of streaming for a fixed price being developed way down the road.

[@Ghost_Text]

And with the way tech is going he's sorely missed. Silicon Valley aint led by tech founders creating value for people. Its led by management consultants and data hustlers.

[@joeybaseball7352]

Nobody wanted to pay for music, if they could get it for free. And young people certainly didn't. But a lot of older people didn't know how to use napster. And they also didn't want to get sued, or get a virus. The record companies were extremely litigious. And they were even suing children for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Ridiculous.

[@gadget00]

The problem with Jobs was that he and Apple were “not” part of the record industry, and that meant he was “getting a cut” out of the business he was never supposed to be involved in the first place. Record executives budged and accepted paying him 30% per song bought in iTunes and that made people pirate “less”, but they still made a lot less money than in the LP/CD days. Then other tech companies offered the same deal but for “streaming”, you're not even selling anything now just getting pennies per “listen”. Thats why we don’t have “Michael Jackson” -level global scale artists anymore; they just can’t afford that level of marketing and outreach. Greed made the record industry shoot themselves in the foot; if they owned the technology the would have ended up better. They should have bought Napster imho

[@joeybaseball7352]

@@gadget00 good. We don't need more Michael Jackson level artists anymore. All we need is good music. We need to stop the hero worship. We need to worship Jesus Christ. Go to church. Stop acting like concert venues are the cathedral. Jesus died for your sins. Taylor swift didn't die for your sins.

[@gadget00]

@@joeybaseball7352 I agree though; but shrinking the record industry won't translate to people coming to Christ. It's a different kind of topic. Taylor Swift is as "worshipped" as Michael and others back in the day; that won't change because that's a problem of humanity itself. I get you, but it's a different problem; the Gospel has to be preached whether the record industry is big or small

[@Kur0y4m4]

TLDR: CDs were too expensive. In exchange for buying it, the listener got one or two good songs and an album full of filler tracks. Consumers were fed up.

[@FlashBack1138]

That's the thing they should've talked about. The high prices were the reason people went pirate.

[@jamesinhenley]

@@FlashBack1138surely you don think that if cds we cheaper they would still be around?

[@Kur0y4m4]

@@jamesinhenley I think if CDs were cheaper, there was more quality music in each album, AND the artists were the ones getting the lion’s share of the money there would have been a stronger argument against downloading for free. As it stands the people who were hurt most were the labels themselves. The artists were getting pennies per CD anyway. I think if folks felt DLing was actually hurting the artists they wanted to support, they would not have not it to the extent they did. As it was, the artists were barely getting paid anyway. I miss brick & mortar music shopping, but I do NOT miss paying so much for CDs with so little real content.

[@DerrickL23]

Buddy you could buy individual tracks digitally a few years after Napster came out. Any cost other than free would be too much if people can pirate the content easily. Movies, TV shows, Video Games, Comics, Books nothing has been safe from piracy so chalking it up CDs being too expensive is half baked at best

[@micperez819]

Exactly, so many artists back then had a career off 1 or 2 good songs. You would buy an album off the single while the rest of the album was trash. Before youtube and file sharing you didn’t know if the rest of the album was good until you purchased it. It was common to get duped off of 1 single

[@Skelovane]

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

[@peaner083]

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.

[@shadyxv786]

“I thought yahoo was a person”😂😂😂

[@andre-le-bone-aparte]

@0:04 - Jerry "Yahoo" Yang is a person, a legend in the history of the internet.

[@meladgoat]

i remember em and dre doing an interview over 20 years ago saying napster and downloading music wouldn't last or be successful. Now fast forward 24 years later, em producing a doc about how successful it actually was lol.

[@BobSteven_enjoyit]

You don’t remember that because it didn’t happen…

[@BigWilt2000]

@@BobSteven_enjoyityou was born in 2007 sit down somewhere

[@imiparerau432]

I learned rappers don't know anything other than how to rap. Even Kendrick Lamar was trying to predict market crashes on the Heart part 4 and was wrong.

[@eugenedavis6792]

I use to record music off the Saturday Night Mixes from the FM Radio back in the day and no one said that was illegal, close to 20 years later I found a way digitize all of my recording from 90 minute cassette to MPEG File than MPEG File to Individual MP3 Tracks; some of the tracks had great sound quality and some didn't then came KZbin! KZbin was the Library of Unlimited Music where I can any Song and or Album; I wish they wish we KZbin in the late 70's

[@PaulMarangoni]

@@BigWilt2000 Wrong: "I was" - "You were"

[@themadrapper101]

I still buy CDs still listen to albums on CD. I got to order them online now which sucks compared to back in the day the experience getting an album on release date from the record store

[@AdelSweezy]

Team Limewire & Emule we're here ! 😂

[@sidd_not_vicious2609]

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

[@ollysombrero8427]

James calling Lars: "okay! just. JUST RELAX! LET THIS ONE GO"

[@dewey-cox]

you NEVER go full LARS!!

[@ScottThePisces]

They should have included when DJ Drama was raided by the FBI for making all those legendary mixtapes with upcoming artists

[@ArtofLunatik]

That was wild

[@sambanelly4219]

This is why in 2019 I got streaming. Came to the realization that for the first time I'm actually contributing to the person I'm listening to.

[@bellasecretsify]

However, artists don't get payed what they deserve for streams. CDs are still the most profitable for them.

[@heythere6983]

Now they do only 360 deals and own the musicians life and they have zero freedom. The labels let it happen because this allowed them to control the musicians even more . And now music is worse than ever and no one really cares about it because it’s a surplus of bad and rushed products and no art . The consumer base is zombie like with short term memory

[@Waywardification]

Exactly they let it happen. Because they know they'll still get paid and live off of someone else's work.

[@jesperbc]

This comes off as the most tone deaf documentary piece in recent memory. Piracy didn't ruin the music industry. Streaming services did.

[@delsinrowe311]

@@203Rez Streaming services came about BECAUSE of downloading

[@prof3ssor178]

This is Produced By: Eminem & LeBron James! This looks dope 🔥

[@NanoPharaoh]

I’m shocked LeBorn doing stuff like this

[@Zero11_ss]

@@NanoPharaoh Easy to put money and slap your name on something when youre rich- while everyone else does the actual work.

[@NanoPharaoh]

@@Zero11_ss when put it like that it opens the gates

[@THEDOORIZCLOSED]

@@Zero11_ssmaybe u dont know the role of a producer😂😂😂 u wont see them writing or filming or researching.

[@Zero11_ss]

@@THEDOORIZCLOSED you can apply the above to any other venture he will slap his name on.

[@kevin084life]

I haven't been this excited about a music documentary since the Defiant Ones

[@TimothyRisby]

First song I ever downloaded on Napster was Eminem - The Real Slim Shady. BUT, it actually got me to buy all his records and I would've gone seen his show if he ever came to my city.

[@nirv]

I still have most of the original mp3 releases by those mp3 groups back then. EGO, RNS etc. I've still got them on discs behind me complete with the nfos and sfv, properly named.

[@stanley2681]

to have lived through that is such a wild feeling now. It was insane. my teen self and my compaq + external cd-rw was working overtime during that era

[@augustsveryown]

the fact that it’s produced by two legends Lebron and Eminem is insane 🔥

[@mikhelBrown]

Steve Stoute shouldn't be speaking on anything related to music. He was part of the problem.

[@mrwayne8018]

I’m gonna make a Napster T-shirt it really makes me remember those times when I use to take like 30 mins just to download a song from the college computer then record it to my mini disc. It totally worth the effort 😅

[@DippedInInk]

Would've NEVER thought in a million years CD would be a dinosaur. I remember when CDs first came in the game.

[@sleepmeditation147]

I know what you mean, however I still buy CD's and records because it is still important to have hard copies, to smell and touch. Also we never know what might happen to Spotify one day, it might crash or something for a while, so the hard copies are still very much needed.

[@DippedInInk]

@@sleepmeditation147 yesssss I agree with u 1000%

[@negusrbg500]

Good times. Columbia,BMG...getting those 5 for 25 deals

[@KatalistProductionsKozzySasha]

MIRC back in the day was the best. Despite downloading alot of music back in the day, I bought even more Vinyl and CD's. The downloading actually introduced me to alot of stuff I had never heard before and couldn't get around where I lived unless I ordered online or downloaded.

[@djblur]

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

[@AlexGarcia-yp7uz]

Back then few people had computers and even fewer had Internet and even less had Cd-R’s - I remember thinking I was the nerdiest and coolest thing listening to full on unreleased versions of 2pac songs in my car and people having no idea what it was

[@DJ--ALLDAY]

😂He said " if they wanted me to be good, they would have paid me MORE"🤣🤣

[@ThinLineMedia]

Now everything is free, you just gotta watch a bunch of ads. Also the attention span is so low that people forget new music in a week.

[@tristanhogue4690]

Speak for yourself

[@Rooster476]

Whats ironic is that I'll probably wait until this is on Pirate Bay to watch it.

[@EBrooks856]

Limewire, Frostwire, and Kazaa, those were the days!

[@dtegg91]

I'm a professional musician, and free music streaming has been the best and worst thing that ever happened to me. The best because it allowed me to download 10k+ songs for free pretty much expanding my music vocabulary exponentially. The worst because it has completely destroyed how I can make money now that I'm older and trying to make a living off of my music. Unless you tour non-stop, most artists are making less than $1000 a year from music these days. This has driven the quality down as well since people have less time to work on their craft.

[@RocStarr913]

You have my sympathy.

[@THEDOORIZCLOSED]

Also: 🗣️PRINCE TRIED TELLING US THIS SINCE IN THE 90s!!!!!!!!

[@gdaydk]

We’re gonna see another version of this movie in 20 years as all movies and shows get split off into 12 different streaming sites and people start just torrenting because it’s easier. People gravitate to whatever avenue has the least friction. People will happily pay for an easier and better experience and product, but when you make your paid product a worse experience than the free illegal alternative, that’s when you lose.

[@NSDCTwitch]

Limewire, Kazaa, Bearshare, Ares, So. MANY. ways to get music. As a kid growing up downloading music, it was/has always been around, recording the radio for your favorite song. I'm super excited to see this doc.

[@DannyCosmos]

Even video2mp3 later on was amazing

[@WhyTheHorseface]

I really liked finding rare unreleased live songs on file sharing servers. I mostly downloaded those songs. I like CD’s. I like the art, the packaging, reading lyrics and liner notes. I still buy CD’s when they are available. Which really puzzles me, because a musician can make a CD for a dollar and sell it for ten or 15 times that, but a vinyl record costs and artist $20, and they can sell it for twice that amount, max. CD’s are where profit lies.

[@kevinbaker1642]

I have lived in Shelby for the past 48 years. This documentary makes Shelby seem like Detroit Ver. 2.0. Nothing is further from the truth. Low crime. Low cost of living. A revitalized uptown that has people coming from all over the country to see how we did it (none of which was shown in the documentary instead showing the worst buildings they could find). Lots of good paying jobs now and during the early 2000s Polygram offered coveted jobs with great pay and benefits. The two employees interviewed were temporary employees who probably had nothing to offer to become permanent employees. As for Dell, I am sure he was making good money at the time since Polygram believed in him and moved him up the ranks into management. But greed is an addictive drug. And after all, this whole story is about greed from the industry and the criminals that stole from Polygram. The facts of the documentary may be correct but like all news/media, it is told with a slant to bring about the desired emotions.

[@sonicextremities9570]

Great book; seems that this show is going to go deeper into the artist perspective which i am down to see since the book mainly covers the pirates, executives, law enforcement, and engineers (but with a budget/documentary now the artists can actually share their side)

[@meladgoat]

there has already been countless documentaries covering this. acdc i belive was the 1st ones to sue napster. it would have made more sense for them to be here

[@sonicextremities9570]

@@meladgoat they might be, i mean its just a trailer; this is going to def go more into the creation of the mp3 format though, not just piracy

[@sonicextremities9570]

if it doesnt id be surprised, im figuring this is an adaptation of the book with a few additions

[@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.

[@Glasweg1an]

I loved when MP3s first stsrted spreading. It was an amazing time.

[@annajordan243]

This is very interesting because i grew up when all of this was happening

[@tiburonandtiger1129]

Gracias paramount por traer esta serie y con el cantante 50 cent ya he visto algunas de sus peliculas y lo escucho en youtube 😊👍

[@edwardosantiago3296]

This is why concerts got so expensive…..

[@RocStarr913]

Performers lost money doing concerts before that.

[@allcombat193]

When i found out how to use Limewire A Whole New World randomly played outta no where it was wild. The PSP and Limewire were the 90's Bulls team.

[@TheDanDiamondShow]

2 kids “ Napster “ broke the whole record industry

[@DevinEx]

Also, most people don't know how hacking or music leaks work, so I think its hilarious to blame the public for consuming free music that was placed in front of them when you should be blaming the handful of hackers that are responsible for leaks.

[@djdren]

yea ... i use napster a lot back then ... then mirc where you can download the whole album of any artist .. napster was the game changer

[@TheDefconsd1]

I use to rip the songs of the windows music Media player website in high school in 2003. This is before KZbin to mp3😅.

[@kenbing8]

You should have Lars Ulrich’s side of the story too

[@agxtreme_official]

Now we get a documentary on how documentry got free ....

[@One21Jiggawatts]

we no longer buy 2 cds a month at $20 a disc and rent 5 videos a week for $10, but we now pay $100 for internet access plus $15 for music subscriptions and about $10 per streaming service. I'd say the consumers lost in the end.

[@benjaminvillarreal1499]

Except the Internet isn't just for music. The Internet opens your entire world up if you use it correctly. You can't use the budget for Internet alongside the budget for entertainment. It's a necessary utility in today's world. Also you don't need personal Internet to use a music streaming service. Mobile service exists.

[@mrjamesmay3548]

Looking forward to watching this. I still buy cds and will never use streaming as I feel that is worse for the artists and me!

[@michaeldeane7368]

50 you did This , it Brings back Memories Back in the day Seven Crowns, Graffiti Gangs Black Soul Artist Cassette tapes Jams in the Parks, Then C D disks With the Remixed Music, Then the MUSIC Videos on MTV and BET Then the Video DJ,s REMIXED The Music Videos on DVDS. THEN the I Phone came out And GAME OVER......... PEASE. Walking around with Free Music On a free Tracking Divise

[@ITACHI9005]

What’s crazy is music is still free, and these artists are still paid

[@coogiszk]

Definitely gonna watch this

[@BenvelMusic]

Back in 2003 Kazaa and eMule were everything ❤

[@mizolafoufounna]

And I thought Kazaa was in Israel !!😂🤣😂😝

[@Krafty]

What’s funny is, this documentary will also be available to stream for free somewhere too 😂

[@bocky7643]

Awesome. Can't wait for the torrent of this series to come out.

[@MrSabas15]

The things I would put my computer through just to listen to Lil Wayne back in 04

[@trinity-hopetricia3241]

Legendary can't wait for it to come on 🏆🐐🎯🙏❤️

[@chaosinorderrr]

Ah yes the infamous Mr. Yahoo

[@MelvinMansoor]

The Real Slim Shady was the first thing I ever illegally downloaded, and it was on Napster…

[@reseautagemailbox2085]

Eminem without piracy, he would have sold triple what he sold as CDs in the world

[@Eddierath]

After Napster it was a wrap bro... I was ripping like a mad man, but I would still purchase the original albums to show my love.. but I think the value of the rips out weighed the value of the originals. 😂 EVERY BODY ATE.... Its like the Robin hood theory. And it's exactly what AI is about to do but worse.

[@donerecooper]

Gotta catch this!

[@TheGMOB]

Short Answer: Record Labels got too greedy and didn’t pay their artists enough anyway. There wasn’t enough intelligent entrepreneurs on the artist side to figure a way to use their music to their advantage.

[@mudani2300]

Ah the Classic Internet Connection Sound in the End Epic!

[@DrBeauHightower]

Executive producer: LeBron James

[@tonybayarea]

Used to get CD's all the time in the 1990's, early 2000's. Haven't bought a 💿 since 2008. It's easier for people to just download 🎶 online, instead of spending $15 - $20+ for a 💿at a music store.

[@surfntrucks]

The industry couldn't collectively unify on digital rights management. People owned their CDs. Let people own their digital versions of songs and allow them to resell that song at market value. Allow residuals on each sale.

[@orbiteflow8909]

And we still get to download free till this day!

[@chutcentral]

Read this book recently. It was amazing.

[@WeylandLabs]

LimeWire was ! 🔥

[@Ajox191]

Limewire was trash mp3s that were full of viruses. Piracy killed music.

[@mrbeats7434]

And here’s Spotify stopping paying royalties to artists songs that have under 1000 streams.

[@asagoodfriend]

I thought Yahoo was a person! Understandable from Marshall's perspective! 🙂👌

[@annajordan243]

In 2003 when i got to college . People were downloading THOUSANDS of songs

[@pfwww12]

I remember him saying that he couldn't drop any music at that time cause it wouldn't sell lol I was buying cds at that time. And had every piracy website. It was wayyyy more accessible back then.

[@musicbysazid]

50 & Em: f*ck f*ck f*ck

[@cletp758]

Those were the days....