Was Sean Parker in with the Italian Job Napster joke?
I just saw the Italian Job again and am wondering, was the real owner of Napster informed with the Napster founder joke?
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From the Italian Job trivia page at IMDb
Lyle (Seth Green) claims he was the creator of Napster, the first online file-sharing service for music, and that it was stolen by his college roommate, Shawn Fanning. In the flashback of Lyle sleeping and his roommate taking a disk out of the PC that has Napster on it, his roommate is portrayed by the real Shawn Fanning, the legitimate creator of Napster. When Fanning steals the disk in the scene, the bottom of a Metallica poster can be seen on the wall. Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich was famously a very vocal critic of Napster, and Metallica filed a lawsuit against the service for copyright infringement and racketeering.
So not only was he aware of the joke he also played himself in the movie.
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Did Shawn Fanning steal Napster?
In the film, Seth Green's character Lyle accused Fanning of stealing Napster from him while he was taking a nap in their Northeastern University dorm room. Although other characters see this as mere bragging, a scene shows Fanning in fact creeping over Lyle's sleeping body and stealing a 3+1\u20442-inch (89 mm) floppy disk.Was Napster a stolen idea?
In The Italian Job (2003), Lyle claims that his idea for Napster was stolen by Shawn Fanning when they were rooming together in college. In the background, there's a Metallica flag, the first music artist to sue Napster for copyright infringement.Who really invented Napster?
He is the founder and chairman of the Parker Foundation, which focuses on life sciences, global public health, and civic engagement. On the Forbes 2022 list of the world's billionaires, he was ranked No. 1,096 with a net worth of US$2.8 billion. Herndon, Virginia, U.S.The Social Network #5 Movie CLIP - I Founded Napster (2010) HD
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