LimeWire is Back - as an NFT Marketplace

LimeWire has announced it will relaunch as a "mainstream-ready, digital collectibles marketplace for art and entertainment, initially focusing on music" in May, confirming a Tuesday scoop by Slashdot that reported precisely the same thing. Engadget adds: Its backers believe that it will be a place for artists and fans to create and sell digital trinkets without the "technical hurdles of the current NFT landscape." It is hoping to partner with a raft of high-profile musicians in the hope of spreading word about LimeWire's resurrection in the hope of getting a million willing buyers signed up before the first year is done. The phrase of the day is ensuring that "NFT newbies" are well catered-for, offering easy signup, pricing in US dollars and a lack of any crypto-based gatekeeping. Users will be able to buy straight from their credit cards (or any other regular money) via Wyre's payment platform, which is also used by OpenSea. The company added that it is working with "top-tier artists" from the music world who will create content for the platform and also open lines of communication with willing fans.

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[GoTeam]

It'll leave that same way it has returned... to the sound of hundreds of shrugs.

Gahh!

[ickleberry]

FUCK NFT's!

The sooner this tulipmania get rich quick scam comes to an end the better.

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[Anonymous Coward]

The whole thing does seem very silly. Also if anyone needs a pun: "LieWire"

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[denzacar]

SlimeWire.

Hey! Look at us! NFT!

[xanthos]

We have a sales platform! Now we just need to find something to sell and somebody to buy it!

Good luck with that.

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[account_deleted]

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A Zombie Business

[crunchygranola]

A re-animated shambling corpse crying out for brains.

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[geekmux]

A re-animated shambling corpse crying out for brains.

Calling Limewire a business, is kind of like calling The Pirate Bay, a corporation.

Appropriately ironic

[ceoyoyo]

Ah, a nostalgic old name, associated with overcoming artificial scarcity, resurrected to create imaginary scarcity.

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[jellomizer]

I am personally getting sick of nostalgia.
Hey look everyone over 35 years old, real life where you need to pay for bills, take care of children, and your future of being a big league pro whatever is now out the window. Go back and remember the stuff of your ages of 15-25, remember how good things were back then, just forget the stress and issues you had because those were often issues of an adolescent mind, that us adults can handle much easier now, and focus on how optimistic things were when your talent

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[jjhall]

As far as the media reboots go, those are all a matter of personal preference. For me, I grew up on TNG, and I love the continuations in the Trek universe. Discovery keeps getting better and better, and I'm looking forward to the new season of Piccard. I also enjoy the movies, and I think it was very smart of them to introduce a parallel timeline so that they weren't limited by cannon to have the artistic freedom they needed. I've also thoroughly enjoyed all of the new Doctor Who episodes, with the exce

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[ceoyoyo]

You make it sound like it's unique to this generation. The nostalgia of your parents is just so deeply embedded in your psyche that you think they're ancient tradition.

Just think, the kids today will think of Napster and Limewire the way you think of Santa, Thanksgiving and diamond rings.

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[parityshrimp]

It is pretty amusing, and that's about all I have to say on the matter.

Sort of Like Saying...

[Dean in Des Moines]

Studebaker is back - as a beachball manufacturer!

Sort of like reanimating the dead

[wakeboarder]

And not in a good way, more like Frakenstiens monster. It's not good because its nothing like the original

An idea worthy of...

[skam240]

An idea worthy of Hollywood!

At least present day Hollywood...

Not news

[ADRA]

This isn't even worth the post. This is literally a waste of time for anyone wasting their time to read this (and doubly so for me who felt the need to post this pedantically).

Free nft!

[real_nickname]

NFT are too expensive, now everybody can download then freely! Each time you download a nft, it is written on a blockchain so everybody know you have it.

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[classiclantern]

NFTs are not expensive. The expensive NFTs make the News. You can buy NFTs on eBay for a few dollars and the seller will send the high bidder a link to the photo or music. You get nothing for your money so it is the perfect proof of P.T.Barnum's theory.

Remember LimeWire?

[istartedi]

It's back. In pog form!

NFT = not fracking there

[sdinfoserv]

or, how to part a billionaire from some of their useless cash. bwahahahahaha