LimeWire outbids Ryan Reynolds to acquire Billy McFarland's Fyre Fest

LimeWire says it bought Fyre Festival, asks obvious question

"What could possibly go wrong?"That's the question posed by LimeWire, the file-sharing service turned NFT marketplace turned file-sharing service once again, after announcing that it has acquired the infamous Fyre Festival.According to a press release from LimeWire this week, the company has purchased the Fyre Festival brand after becoming the winning bidder in a "competitive bidding process" that included actor Ryan Reynolds' creative agency Ma…

LimeWire Buys Fyre Festival: 'What Could Possibly Go Wrong?'

LimeWire — the file-sharing service that once wrecked family computers in the early 2000s — now owns one of the internet’s greatest disasters: Fyre Festival. The company, which relaunched in 2022 as an online marketplace for NFTs, confirmed it won a bidding war for the rights to the infamously doomed event, paying $245,000 for the brand. “We’re not bringing the festival back — we’re bringing the brand and the meme back to life,” CEO Julian Zehet…

LimeWire outbids Ryan Reynolds to acquire Billy McFarland's Fyre Fest

LimeWire, the early-2000s illegal peer-to-peer file-sharing and pirating platform, which resurfaced in 2022 as a crypto company, has been revealed as the winning bidder on eBay for the infamous Fyre Fest brand - the brainchild of convicted fraudster Billy McFarland. Good luck to them.

What Could Possibly Go Wrong: LimeWire Acquires Fyre Festival Brand

Source: Jim Bennett / Getty A former file-sharing giant is trying to catch a second wave in the music scene. Well, sort of. LimeWire has acquired the Fyre Festival brand. As per the New York Times, LimeWire is now in the community performance event business. This week, the free peer-to-peer sharing service turned NFT platform announced they have purchased the Fyre Festival. With the purchase, LimeWire acquires all of its trademarks, intellectual…

Limewire Now Owns The Rights To Fyre Festival

Limewire, the early 2000s P2P file-sharing program that was used primarily to share pirated music, and later revived as an NFT marketplace, has made news by purchasing the rights to Fyre Festival. The now NFT marketplace reportedly paid close to US$250,000 (~RM1.05 million) for it, with plans to possibly transform it into a new music streaming service. “Fyre became a symbol of hype gone wrong, but it also made history,” LimeWire’s chief executiv…

LimeWire Outbids Ryan Reynolds To Buy Billy McFarland’s Fyre Fest Brand

[Image: fyrefestival / x] LimeWire has outbid Ryan Reynolds on eBay to acquire the infamous Fyre Fest brand owned by convicted fraudster and failed promoter Billy McFarland. LimeWire, which rose to infamy as an illegal peer-to-peer file-sharing and pirating platform in the early 2000s, resurfaced in 2022 as a crypto company and now owns one of the most well-known – albeit for the wrong reasons – festival brands. Convicted felon and Fyre founder …