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Wow, the organisers of SOSP booked an excursion on Thursday without sufficient places for most attendees. And the day before the official start of the conference, it's already fully booked. Apparently it was full before my flight even landed. Glad to see the massively overpriced registration fee is being spent in accordance with the ACM policies on inclusion. #SOSP #ACM
Limewire Now Owns The Rights To Fyre Festival #fyrefestival #limewire #randomasitgets
Ryan Reynolds' Interest in Fyre Festival: A Potential Collaboration with LimeWire
In an unexpected turn of events, LimeWire, the revived platform once known for peer-to-peer file sharing, has acquired the infamous Fyre Festival brand. Fyre Festival, infamous for its failed luxury music festival and fraudulent claims, has been bought by LimeWire, which now aims to bring back the b... [More info]
LimeWire Acquires Fyre Festival Brand to Relaunch Experience-Based Projects
LimeWire, a platform historically known for music piracy, has purchased the rights to the Fyre Festival brand, infamous for its failed luxury music festival in the Bahamas in 2017. The original Fyre Festival, organized by Billy McFarland, became a viral disaster, resulting in multiple lawsuits and M... [More info]
NBC News: LimeWire acquires Fyre Festival, asking โWhat Could Possibly Go Wrong?โ. โLimeWire, 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. And it appreciates the irony.โ
A little update on the Fyre Festival Fiasco.
After the original Fyre festival fell apart, organiser Billy McFarland served four years for fraud. Fresh out of jail, Billy unveiled "Fyre Festival 2" which promptly flopped and was "indefinitely postponed".
So Billy auctioned the Fyre Festival brand, including its "trademarks, IP, digital assets, media reach, and cultural capital" (sic!).
A company called LimeWire paid $245,300 for the package. This is not the early 2000s file-sharing LimeWire but another outfit which bought the original brand and turned it into a marketplace for NFTs.
So a cryptobro company which sells NFTs bought the rights to a festival which is synonymous with bad organisation.
Serves them right.
https://www.the-independent.com/tech/limewire-fyre-festival-nfts-b2827792.html
Fyre Festival Brand Is Acquired By LimeWire, Set For A Reimagining, โWithout The Cheese Sandwichesโ
#News #BillyMcFarland #FyreFestival #LimeWire
https://deadline.com/2025/09/fyre-festival-brand-acquired-by-limewire-1236546233/
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Taika Waititi en Rita Ora werken aan een satirische musical over het spraakmakende Fyre Festival. De twee zijn als producenten betrokken bij de voorstelling gebaseerd op het mislukte muziekevenement, dat in 2017 een groot mediacircus veroorzaakte.
Taika Waititi en Rita Ora werken aan een satirische musical over het spraakmakende Fyre Festival. De twee zijn als producenten betrokken bij de voorstelling gebaseerd op het mislukte muziekevenement, dat in 2017 een groot mediacircus veroorzaakte.
Fyre Festival Musical In Development With Taika Waititi and Rita Ora
#Arts #Lifestyle #Broadway #FyreFestival #Theater
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