Saying that LimeWire is an interesting brand to revive would be an understatement.
LimeWire, the so-called « music platform » that introduced many people of a certain age to piracy, is reportedly being reincarnated as a non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace. Bloomberg reports that Austrian « brothers Paul and Julian Zehetmayr are hoping to use LimeWire’s early-2000s fame to attract users to their new cryptosphere platform, with the two spending most of last year steadily acquiring the various parts of LimeWire’s branding. » Saying that LimeWire is an interesting brand to revive would be an understatement. It did make it easy for people to pirate music in the early aughts, sure, but those people weren’t metaphorically sailing the black seas. They were drinking from a cesspool with a few drops of potable water.
