sean parker | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:37:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png sean parker | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 Napster documentary Downloaded to premier at SXSW https://www.kitguru.net/channel/jon-martindale/napster-documentary-downloaded-to-premier-at-sxsw/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/jon-martindale/napster-documentary-downloaded-to-premier-at-sxsw/#respond Mon, 21 Jan 2013 16:00:22 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=122563 A documentary directed by Alex Winters, the most excellent companion to Keanu Reeve's Ted, from Bill and Ted, called Downloaded, is set to debut at the South by South West festival, chronicling the rise and fall of the internet's first dominant, Peer to Peer file transfer service, Napster, and its impact on the world. The …

The post Napster documentary Downloaded to premier at SXSW first appeared on KitGuru.]]>
A documentary directed by Alex Winters, the most excellent companion to Keanu Reeve's Ted, from Bill and Ted, called Downloaded, is set to debut at the South by South West festival, chronicling the rise and fall of the internet's first dominant, Peer to Peer file transfer service, Napster, and its impact on the world.

The feature length documentary is said to focus on the founders of Napster: Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker and how they went from high-school students to millionaires running a giant company that rattled the foundations of the music industry. In the trailer it's interesting to see the archived footage of the pair – looking far more fresh faced than they do now, while also hearing from many musicians that felt they were being stolen from.

[yframe url='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ai6K2VIEXM']

However we also hear the other perspective, where people describe the downturn of the music industry's profits as due to stagnation. Noal Gallagher says at one point that he thought the way the music business had been going for the past 50 years, “worked,” which perfectly encapsulates what others were saying: the industry was evolving without the big players of the past.

While Napster was eventually shut down a mere two years after its popularity spike, Downloaded describes it as beginning a revolution on the internet, showing people that they could do things differently. This has been played out in contemporary society too, with the likes of Netflix and Spotify doing things with media that the giants of old didn't envisage and are only slowly coming around to now.

KitGuru Says: I'm looking forward to when this is available. I'll be a good boy though and watch it on Netflix, not download it. Maybe.

The post Napster documentary Downloaded to premier at SXSW first appeared on KitGuru.]]>
https://www.kitguru.net/channel/jon-martindale/napster-documentary-downloaded-to-premier-at-sxsw/feed/ 0
Sean Parker says ‘journalists created caricature of me.’ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/slyvia/sean-parker-says-journalists-created-caricature-of-me/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/slyvia/sean-parker-says-journalists-created-caricature-of-me/#respond Thu, 26 May 2011 08:04:05 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=46644 Sean Parker, the high profile founding president of FaceBook was at the eG8 Forum in Paris yesterday and he faced some interesting questions. He was asked about Justin Timberlake's portrayal of him in the Social Network. He said “The irony lies in the fact that I'm also one of the victims. I was abused and …

The post Sean Parker says ‘journalists created caricature of me.’ first appeared on KitGuru.]]>
Sean Parker, the high profile founding president of FaceBook was at the eG8 Forum in Paris yesterday and he faced some interesting questions.

He was asked about Justin Timberlake's portrayal of him in the Social Network. He said “The irony lies in the fact that I'm also one of the victims. I was abused and maligned by the media, largely the Internet media. Largely by unaffiliated bloggers with no standard of journalistic ethics who created this caricature of me.”

“I watched as this character emerged week after week, whose antics were in some ways as entertaining to me as anyone else. I had my identity commandeered by the blogosphere and Twitter and Facebook.

Sean Parker (inset) and Justin Timberlake playing his role

My first instict was to withdraw. But what I realized was that my salvation was to embrace it: to publish more. We live in a world where reality is fiction and vice versa. In America, celebrities live entire fictional lives, and that life to readers of tabloids is more real for them than reality.”

KitGuru says: We do indeed live in a world where reality is fiction

The post Sean Parker says ‘journalists created caricature of me.’ first appeared on KitGuru.]]>
https://www.kitguru.net/channel/slyvia/sean-parker-says-journalists-created-caricature-of-me/feed/ 0