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It's the difference between

vertical authority, you know,

God-Given physically

enforceable authority

And horizontal authority.

I've joked in the past,

and fanning and i would be like,

Where did you guys meet?

And we were,

we were part of the, you know,

Fanning and i were part

of the same underground network

Of elite cyber criminals.

And it, it's basically true.

We met through irc,

Um, as we both got drawn

into irc,

We became more and more

addicted to it

And more and more

fascinated by it.

Which made us fight much harder

To retain access to it and then,

You know, over time,

It became our lives.

It took over our lives.

You're talking about

revolutionizing

The way we use computers.

And how we use the internet.

Oh absolutely. Absolute...

i mean it, this is, this is the,

What's most interesting

about it,

Is you're interacting

with peers.

You're exchanging information

with you know,

The person down the street.

And we're just beginning?

Oh, absolutely.

Sean fanning's one of

the smartest people

I've ever met.

He was teaching himself

how to program

And he saw this really simple

way to find music

That he could listen to

on the internet.

Here was a guy with no clout,

no connections,

19 years old and he really changed

the way we think about the internet.

It's hard to explain

where things were at back then.

I mean i was 18,

i didn't really,

I hadn't really seen

much of the world.

You know, i didn't really...

um, i think it was,

i mean the best way to say it

Is it kind of came from

a very pure place.

[Music]

I was excited

'cause he was my first.

So i thought, you know,

I really did think

he was gonna conquer the world.

Everybody does

with their first kid, right?

I was born in brockton and uh...

didn't have

the most stable family.

Uh, you know,

they made their best effort,

But i grew up with a stepdad

And we ended up

in foster care a couple times.

Brockton was just a, uh,

brockton was just no good.

[Laughs]

But uh, huh, yeah.

I mean, i don't want to,

I don't want to

talk to much about like

Money situation,

but like you know,

We, we grew up

Like, not too well off you know.

And my mom and dad,

there's five kids

And my dad was

a delivery driver, you know

And they did the best

they could, but...

that's when, he got into sports

when we moved down to the cape.

Being into sports,

i think it got his mind

Um, so that life

was a little easier for him.

I think music helped him too,

like sports.

Every time he was

on the computer,

He had the radio there.

See what i mean, like he was

always listening to music.

So uh, there's really no

surprise there

That he-He-He ended up,

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