LimeWire Acquires Fyre Festival Brand
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/17/2151212/limewire-acquires-fyre-festival-brand
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LimeWire said it would "unveil a reimagined vision for Fyre -- one that expands beyond the digital realm and taps into real-world experiences, community, and surprise." No additional details were announced about the relaunch.
"Fyre became a symbol of hype gone wrong, but it also made history," LimeWire CEO Julian Zehetmayr said. "We're not bringing the festival back -- we're bringing the brand and the meme back to life. This time with real experiences, and without the cheese sandwiches."
[1] https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/23/1930238/limewire-being-sued-for-75-trillion
[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/limewire-acquires-fyre-festival-asking-possibly-go-wrong-rcna231623
[3] https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250915990798/en/LimeWire-Acquires-Fyre-Festival-Brand-What-Could-Possibly-Go-Wrong
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Um... No.
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Seconded. Just, no.
I must have missed ... (Score:2)
... this amazing Fyre thing somehow.
There are at least two documentaries ... (Score:3)
... about the Fyre Festival fraud and failure, (at least) one of them on Netflix. Check it out, absolutely hilarious. LimeWire buying the Fyre brand sounds 110% like something the LimeWire crew came up with while laying stoned in a Whirlpool. I love this. LOL!
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[1]Quite a story [wikipedia.org] - yikes!
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyre_Festival
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I wonder what they paid for it? I'd like to think maybe it was $100 or something, but Fyre presumably still owes people money, so maybe it had to be a bit more?
Either way, Limewire was a pretty toxic brand until those blokes bought it. Now it's pretty much unheard of. Fyre is about as toxic as it comes, so one wonders what they're going to do with it.
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Maybe get aquired by EA so EA can start up a "shit brand licensing scheme" for people who really want to associate their product with absolute nonsense.
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> ... this amazing Fyre thing somehow.
Take Woodstock '99, and remove even the little bit of entertainment before the calamity. And somehow. Having watched the documentaries on both out of morbid curiosity, it was entertaining, but I certainly wouldn't have wanted to have been there, in either case.
Oh it's incredible (Score:2)
I watched a video on it a while back and it's freaking hilarious. Absolute complete total disaster. It was marketed towards Rich yuppie types and when all is said and done they took tons of money from downrich people and dump them into a muddy field in middle of nowhere and gave them bologna sandwiches with moldy bread.
Didn't know LimeWire was still around... (Score:3)
Not like it used to be nor Napster !
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They aren't really. The name was re-used by a NFT company starting in 2022. That's who we are talking about in this article. The original has been dead since 2010 or 2011 after a number of lawsuits from the RIAA (including one seeking $72 Trillion (yes, with a T).
LOL (Score:2)
LOL is the only comment.
I grok corporate speak. Coming soon: (Score:1)
LymeWyre Brand (TM) Cheyse Sandwyches (R)
Available at all good snack and record stores.
Theft Buys Fraud (Score:2)
Perfect bedfellows.
That's not LimeWire. (Score:5, Informative)
As per the wiki, the name was reused by unrelated companies long after the original LimeWire imploded.
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LimeWire#Name_reuse_by_unrelated_companies
data (Score:2)
the old oil is data there is a ton of stupid data in them their hills
Rename the festival to Napster (Score:2)
and invite Metallica.
Now that would be funny!
Fyre? (Score:2)
I wouldn't pay more than $1.49 for that brand...
Someone made a deal with the devil (Score:2)
I cannot imagine any other reason to WANT that brand.
It is synonymous with fraud, deception, and incompetence.
Either someone wants to change that more than they want to make money, or someone made a deal with the devil and the devil said "OK, you can own a big corporate brand, but is has to be an EVIL one. Ha ha ha ha ha"
TIL (Score:3)
LimeWire is still around.
Somebody brought back the Acclaim brand (Score:2)
If you don't know Acclaim was a video game publisher from the late 80s famous for making some of the worst garbage on the Nintendo entertainment system and 16-bit consoles. Lots of licensed garbage. If you know them it's probably because they also licensed Mortal Kombat and NBA jam, and rather famously stole the NBA jam name from the original company that made it, Midway games, and proceeded to run it into the ground immediately.
Once a brand exists and people know it it just seems like it always ends up
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That's the biggest revelation from the article