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LimeWire acquires Fyre Festival, asking 'What Could Possibly Go Wrong?'


The filesharing service (turned NFT platform) said it was looking to bring "the brand and the meme back to life."

LimeWire, the filesharing service that set the internet ablaze in the 2000s before being shut down for copyright infringement, said Tuesday that is acquiring the rights to Fyre Festival. In 2022, Austrian brothers Julian and Paul Zehetmayr bought LimeWire’s intellectual property and turned it into an NFT service. LimeWire said its bid was backed by Maximum Effort, the creative agency co-founded by the actor and entrepreneur Ryan Reynolds.

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