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      It’s just a grifter that acquired the limewire logo rights and made a shitcoin out of it

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        only one? are they a loser or something? i coulda made like, two shitcoins out of it this morning. LCoin and LCoinPro. i didn’t even have to think about it. and if you buy LCoin and you’re smart, you can figure out a way to get LCoinPro (hint it’s giving me more money) its like they aren’t putting any thought into their scams.

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    Limewire acquires fyre festival

    Was there anything to acquire? There never was anything but a name

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    Fictional quote:

    look, we’ve been experts at distributing viruses to people wanting to listen to music for decades

    We just figured, why not try to do it IRL?

    After seeing what happened with covid, we think there’s a lot of promise in the distribution of viruses at physical music festivals too.

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    People are starving on this planet (purposefully!) and somehow a piracy platform from 25 year ago, known for being shit, which pivoted to the scammy world of NFTs, somehow still exists and has enough money to buy the scam festival?

    Guys, enough. How did I die, and what am I accused of that holds me to this circle of hell?

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      Ah you finally got it, congrats! We knew it would become too ridiculous to believe at some point, but I’m glad we got this far. You still bought some insane shit (Kanye running for President, Kissinger getting the Nobel peace prize, Israel committing a holocaust, Oasis getting together again, people buying monkey JPEGs for millions of dollars…). Come on, nothing in this list is even remotely believable.

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    So you get to listen to the music for free, but you’re definitely coming home with a virus.

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    If they buy the name and bring in actually competent people to run it the infamy of the name would bring a lot of attention.

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      They could get sponsors too - that would really whip the llama’s ass. Bonsai Buddy trading cards. Gator Wallet crypto tent. Dog Park sponsored by Dogpile and Pets.com. Jeeves posted at strategic locations for guest assistance. (A)lta(V)ista AV jam sessions.

      Fuck I miss the mid 90s

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    They actually acquired Fyre.Festival.exe. Explorer just doesn’t show the extension by default.

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      iirc the original copywrite trademark (thanks ripcord) either expired or got purchased, but it’s just being used as an NFT platform or something now

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        They should check what trademarks Apple has allowed to elapse, I could see myself attending a festival called FyreWire.

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      I mean who wouldn’t want them back? I for one think about Limwire all time… just thinking - wouldn’t it be great if Limewire would just launch some new stuff, maybe sell some colourful shoes, open a lime themed restaurant or maybe even become a hedge fund. Yeah, that would be just great.

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    Instead of most people going home with a virus, now everybody is going home with a virus and their names on an FBI watchlist.

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    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.

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      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.