financial models. And we all remember what happened with Napster. Shawn Fanning said, "Here's free music. Everyone can download all that you like." And the RIAA came along and said, "Yeah, you're crapping on our business model." And they shut them down.
make a subscription service. Did Fanning and Parker and Ali Aydar and the core Napster guys think-- I mean, it's questionable. I don't want to make people angry in retrospect by saying what I think about that.
"Yeah, well good fucking luck, pal," said Detective Dennis Fanning . Detective Fanning was recruited as the technical advisor on "Colors." And for three months, the LAPD stuck Sean Penn in the backseat of a squad car. Sometimes, when you're with someone, says Fanning , you know, a partner, they could be the greatest cop in the world.
Any cat can pick up a kitten and run for it. You have troops fanning out.
And I feel more on the latter than I do on the former. The heart of what Fanning innovated and disrupted in terms of his vision was about looking at the internet as a place where everybody could be communally connected, and that
There's two things that happen in any kind of revolution like this, whether it's cultural or political. To me-- and Fanning said it himself the day I met him.
Well, Dennis told me his crazy stories of when he left the hospital and of walking down the road in his fucking PJs, recounted Detective Fanning , of some of the war stories that he and Hopper would tell. And Hopper would tell him about his rehab and his wanderings in the Mexican jungle.
my so I want you close some breath Sean Parker and Sean Fanning and Napster and what happened then then the record industry would look a lot different right now but they were afraid of it and
the mural within the mural 'cause that like serves - so the mural in the mural is a bit like 'you are here' on a map, you know? You go like, 'Oh, wait, that's', you know? So it's fanning out from where we are, you know? And showing people around it. And now I'm gonna show a little clip.
doing whatever that defies the rest of civilization. This is Stevenson on the right fanning his wife who is just below the palm tree, two Polynesians.
So I think that strikes at the heart. That's what I found interesting about Fanning when I first met him over 10 years ago. That's what I found interesting about Napster when I used it.
And it went on like that for years. I remember when I first met Fanning as Napster was crumbling, and I said to him, what to you was the highest high you had on this whole process?
Well, all right, I'm just going through. It was like the earth was bleeding blood and fanning out into this giant delta.
Can anybody guess? If we had a fan, we would be fanning it.
I can tell you that everybody that I know in the tech sector feels that way. Everybody I've met super high up the food chain in that world all credit Fanning with-- I mean, there are sort of grumbly, mumbly people as competitive as everybody can be who are just like, obviously, this would have happened at some point.
Their ability to move content around that quickly in the age of dialup was radically innovative. And also, the sheer disruptive nature of what Fanning and Parker put out there. And you can argue-- I went to great pains to not get bogged down in the ethics discussions in the movie.
Lauren: I'm always looking on the bright side of things as everyone can tell. Female Presenter: Oh, she's fanning herself like this.
studio again I show this because I it was this is a great quick way of cleaning mopping i'ma Fanning 's you've done mopping recently but you know that if you have one of these that goes really quickly and I remember when I was
There's two things that happen in any kind of revolution like this, whether it's cultural or political. Yeah. I think that what's interesting-- I remember I was hanging around with Fanning a lot when he was working on SNOCAP.
actor Sean Penn. "We're here to learn about gangs," announced Sean, at a meeting of CRASH, Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums, which was an LAPD gang unit. "Yeah, well good fucking luck, pal," said Detective Dennis Fanning . Detective Fanning was recruited as the technical advisor on "Colors." And for three months, the LAPD stuck Sean Penn in the backseat of a squad car.
Detective Fanning was recruited as the technical advisor on "Colors." And for three months, the LAPD stuck Sean Penn in the backseat of a squad car. Sometimes, when you're with someone, says Fanning , you know, a partner, they could be the greatest cop in the world. And you could be the greatest cop in the world.
And Hopper would tell him about his rehab and his wanderings in the Mexican jungle. Well, says, Fanning , me and him, we had the same stories, just different sides of the fence. We got along famously.
We don't have this idea of a loaf of bread going on the table, everyone cutting slices. We don't. You go into rural India, you will find that, when the farmer comes back, his wife is serving him, often fanning him. Every agrarian culture-- in Ireland, the story is still the same today.
Yeah, sorry. to get so heavy so early. You assembled a marvelous cast with "Trumbo." In addition to Michael, Helen Mirren, Louis CK, John Goodman, Elle Fanning , but also you landed Walter White, another well known gangster, the beloved Bryan Cranston.
And you could be the greatest cop in the world. But you two don't have karma, when you're in a car, together-- Fanning 's explaining this to me at an Orange County, Starbucks-- you know, the thing is, is just you're always 10 minutes late.