Two Austrian entrepreneurs acquire the assets of LimeWire, the music sharing service shuttered in 2010, and plan to relaunch it as a music-focused NFT service
A pair of serial entrepreneurs in Austria has bought the rights to defunct music platform LimeWire with plans to revamp its image …
Bloomberg Emily Nicolle
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Discussion
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@oscarwgrut
Oscar Williams-Grut
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Of course - the perfect story https://twitter.com/...
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@psawers
Paul Sawers
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What are they actually acquiring here — it's mostly just the LimeWire name, really. Wonder what they paid for it. https://twitter.com/...
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@timccopeland
Tim Copeland
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How nostalgic! https://www.cnbc.com/...
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@ryan_browne_
Ryan Browne
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The 2020s is full of surprises... LimeWire, the defunct p2p file-sharing site, is set to return this year as a music-focused NFT marketplace. https://www.cnbc.com/...
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@emilyjnicolle
Emily Nicolle
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exclusive: remember LimeWire, the place where you could download music but instead of paying for it in cash, you earned a few viruses on your desktop PC? well it's making a return, but this time as an NFT music marketplace https://www.bloomberg.com/...
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@sam_l_shead
Sam Shead
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LimeWire is back!! ...as an NFT marketplace 🙃 https://www.cnbc.com/...