LimeWire
I was a LimeWire kid. Growing up, I used this service to download music constantly to my oversized, off brand MP3 player with its huge (for the time) 5GB of storage capacity. I dropped off that bandwagon years before the platform went belly up. I might not have much nostalgia for it, but other past users certainly do.
Well, this latest blockchained-up version of Limewire is not the version of my youth. It was brought back from the dead earlier this year as an NFT marketplace. The company said it would have a focus on art, but also music. Trying to harken back to the early, cowboy days of the internet where neither the music industry nor courts knew precisely how to handle torrent sites and peer-to-peer downloads, sibling owners Paul and Julian Zehetmayr say they want to connect artists with fans. What that really means is that artists can sell limited editions, pre-releases, and other bundles without having to rely on a record label.
