Torrenting services have always had an anti-authoritarian, rule-breaking streak, but the new LimeWire plans to work directly with artists and music industry figures. The plan here is to capitalize on the power of nostalgia, but there are some parts of the LimeWire experience that won’t be making the transition to the blockchain. “Everybody connects it with music and we’re launching initially a very music-focused marketplace, so the brand was really the perfect fit for that with its legacy.” Even if you look on Twitter today, there’s hundreds of people still being nostalgic about the name,” said Julian Zehetmayr in an interview with Bloomberg.

They’re connecting the nostalgia with a technology that, like peer-to-peer file sharing, is designed to upset and decentralize the cultural order. Brothers Paul and Julian Zehetmayr recognize the power of that feeling, which is why they chose to acquire the LimeWire name from its original owner.

It hearkens back to those carefree days of yore and the teenage indiscretions that filled them. federal court effectively killed LimeWire, and the platform was left to linger in overstimulated millennial minds - or so we thought.Īs you can see, LimeWire carries a special kind of nostalgia among internet users of a certain age (i.e. Like predecessors Napster and Kazaa, LimeWire allowed its users to download torrent files that contained pirated versions of songs, albums, TV shows, and movies.

Subscribe to get the latest creator news Subscribeįor the uninitiated, LimeWire operated during the first decade of the millennium.

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