• AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I’m not sure what limewire is, and I have no idea what that festival is… so, good job everyone (just in case)!

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      Limewire used to be a p2p file sharing platform ages ago, now the name is used for some crypto project. Probably a scam.

      Fyre festival was the disaster music festival on an island where the artists didn’t show up, the villas were actually FEMA tents and food was shite. The guy who organised it went to jail. Proper scam.

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      There was a really entertaining documentary on Netflix about the original festival. Highly recommend watching it, there are some real gems in some of the interviews.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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      23 hours ago

      The Limewire they mention I can only assume it’s the old Napster clone that was commonly used for piracy before the age of BitTorrent.

      The festival was basically a scam. People paid a lotta money for some super elaborate fancy party and got essentially nothing and were, understandably, pissed.