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Fyre Festival is becoming a music streaming service that might not be a scam this time

The Fyre Festival saga is getting an unexpected new chapter: it's name will be used for a new music streaming service.

He's acquired select intellectual property trademarks for the famouslyfailed music event whose co-founder Billy McFarland went to jail for fraud. Deadline reports that the Fyre Music Streaming will have a subscription video-on-demand platform and free ad-supported television channels. It takes an impressive amount of hubris to use the name of a comically ridiculous music festival fraud and expect people to give you money for it.

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