That's the question posed by LimeWire, the file-sharing service turned NFT marketplace turned file-sharing service once again ...
Rights to the Fyre Festival were up for auction eight years after its organizers held a disastrous, widely mocked festival ...
Fyre Festival became synonymous with disaster after it over promised and under delivered on a celebrity-packed music festival ...
The once infamous peer-to-peer file sharing program LimeWire purchased the Fyre Festival brand for $245,000 in July.
The new LimeWire outbid other buyers for the rights to Fyre Fest’s trademarks, intellectual property, and social media, ultimately paying $245,300 in July. Notably, it beat out Ryan Reynolds’s company ...
LimeWire, the early-2000s illegal peer-to-peer file-sharing and pirating platform, which resurfaced in 2022 as a crypto company, has been revealed as the winning bidder on eBay for the infamous Fyre ...
The disgraced founder said he auctioned off the branding rights for the event on eBay for $245,300. McFarland was ordered to pay $26 million to the investors, concert-goers, and vendors he defrauded.
Billy McFarland is onto a new business venture. On Wednesday, April 23, the founder of the controversial Fyre Fest founder revealed that he is selling the brand that made him infamous. McFarland, 33, ...
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LimeWire, one of the most iconic names in early internet music culture, has officially acquired the Fyre Festival brand – bringing together two legendary names from digital ...
Billy McFarland, the scam artist and convicted fellon who gained notoriety for the disastrous 2017 Fyre Festival, has officially sold the rights to the event’s brand on eBay for $245,300 (approx. €211 ...
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Remember when thousands of people were stranded in the Bahamas in 2017? Well, the ill-fated FYRE Festival might be happening again. Billy McFarland, the festival's promoter, ...
RALEIGH, N.C. -- The Fyre Festival was the greatest party that never happened. Some people say it was doomed from the start and now, the event is the subject of two dueling documentaries. Netflix and ...