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.

The history of Fyre Festival is a long and complicated one that factors in everything from Ja Rule to actual prison sentences. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the cultural and political moment, it's ...

We didn’t have this on our music tech bingo card this week. The Fyre Festival name is being repurposed for an unexpected new venture – a music streaming platform. Shawn Rech, co-founder of ...

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 ...

Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland has put the embattled festival brand up for sale with the hopes that a new buyer will be able to guide it to eventual success. Earlier this week, there was an ...

Billy McFarland is trying once again to pull off a new festival 8 years after his failed Fyre Festival. McFarland, who served prison time for wire fraud and owes his victims millions, has long talked ...

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 ...

Ticketholders who planned to attend Billy McFarland’s controversial Fyre Festival 2 next month were left in a state of panic on Wednesday after its official website posted – and then deleted – an ...

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Fyre Festival‘s long, strange journey will continue later this year as the festival will pivot to a pop-up Caribbean Island adventure week as the brand spins off into new opportunities. Billy ...