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Remember the Fyre Festival, a non-event so disastrous that it spawned two documentaries? Well, it now has a new owner with a similarly shady past: LimeWire. You likely recall LimeWire as a peer-to-peer file-sharing app from the 2000s that millions of people used to download pirated music, movies, and TV shows. That version of the company shut down in 2010 amid copyright complaints but relaunched in 2022 as an NFT marketplace. It has now purchased the Fyre Festival name, and it wants to turn it into a crypto event. The original Fyre Festival in 2017 was advertised as a luxury experience on a private island in The Bahamas. Attendees were promised five-star treatment and celebrity appearances; some paid up to $100,000 for a ticket. Festival-goers arrived at an empty plot of land with a few tents and barely any food. Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland later served four years in prison on fraud charges. A second attempt at a Fyre Festival was canceled in April, and the brand was put u...

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