Limewire Acquires Fyre Festival, Has Vague Plans To Offer 'real Experiences'

LimeWire has announced that it's acquired nan authorities to Fyre Festival, nan disastrous, influencer-fueled 2017 euphony festival. The recently revived institution — which now acts arsenic a NFT euphony marketplace alternatively than a file-sharing work — bought nan authorities for $245,000 successful an eBay auction, The New York Times reports. A abstracted scheme to usage nan Fyre Festival sanction to motorboat a caller euphony streaming work was announced successful April 2025.

"Fyre became a awesome of hype gone wrong, but it besides made history," LimeWire CEO Julian Zehetmayr shared successful a property release. "We're not bringing nan show backmost — we’re bringing nan marque and nan meme backmost to life. This clip pinch existent experiences, and without nan food sandwiches."

It sounds for illustration LimeWire mightiness want to move Fyre Festival into a beingness perk of nan integer collectibles it sells done its NFT marketplace. The institution is readying to uncover "a reimagined imagination for Fyre" successful nan coming months that "expands beyond nan integer realm and taps into real-world experiences, organization and surprise." During nan tallness of their popularity, NFTs were often sold arsenic memberships to exclusive communities and events, truthful if that's nan tack LimeWire takes, it wouldn't beryllium a peculiarly original one.

Of course, originality mightiness not beryllium nan extremity erstwhile a cardinal strategy for your institution is apparently acquiring and reinventing aged brands. LimeWire's stake seems to beryllium that nan sanction nickname of buying a musician's NFT from LimeWire aliases attending a Fyre Festival arena and not getting stranded successful The Bahamas will beryllium capable for immoderate people.