Fyre Festival founder and CEO Billy McFarland sold the event's branding rights in an eBay auction. LimeWire, a file-sharing service that was once a hotbed for illegal downloads, won that auction.
Fyre Festival, one of the biggest pop culture failures of the past decade, is being reimagined in a new format. The husband-and-wife team of Oscar-winning director Taika Waititi and singer Rita Ora is ...
The early 2000s music sharing software company LimeWire — now resurrected as a crypto company by new owners — won rights to the infamous Fyre Festival in an auction that was held on eBay, reportedly ...
Nearly four years after the infamous Fyre Festival flamed out, scammed ticket holders might finally see some restitution for the biggest party that never was. A proposed settlement in federal ...
Those who attended the now infamous Fyre Festival in 2017 expecting a luxury music festival didn’t quite get what they paid for. Now, four years later, some ticket holders could receive more than ...
It's take two for the Fyre Festival. "FYRE 2 is real. My dream is finally becoming a reality," Billy McFarland, the founder of the controversial festival, told TODAY in an interview that aired Feb. 24 ...
LimeWire bought the infamous Fyre Festival brand for $245,300 and now plans to revive its legacy with real-world events. LimeWire has scooped up the infamous Fyre Festival brand in an eyebrow-raising ...
Do two wrongs make a right? LimeWire, the revived-for-crypto brand best known for getting millennials their first taste of the new LCD Soundsystem song, bought Fyre Festival, the even more failed ...
LimeWire, 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 ...