Sean Parker's Post-Wedding: Punishment: Building App for California

Tech mogul must build app to allow for beach access.

As penance for his killer Big Sur wedding, Facebook investor and Napster co-founder Sean Parker is building an app that will help normal folks in California access beaches.

Silicon Beat, the San Jose Mercury News's tech offering, says that the app would help visitors located often-hidden beachfronts, which are all public property but sometimes "hard to find amid private property."

The beaches belong to all of us, you see, even if the houses nearby don't.

And sometimes the house-dwellers seek to block access to beaches, as the escapades of venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, who unsuccessfully tried to block public access to Martins Beach in Half Moon Bay.

Parker is supposedly working on the project himself, using data from the California Coastal Commission, the news source reported.

Parker and his wife Alexandra also doled out $1.4 million in grants for throwing a wedding in the redwoods that violated the state's Coastal Act.

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