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LMWR BabyDoge acquires LimeWire to reshape the file-sharing brand in the Internet era
BabyDoge has officially completed its acquisition of LimeWire and placed this iconic file-sharing brand of the Internet era under new leadership. Under the new strategic direction, the platform will focus on decentralized storage, artificial intelligence (AI) tools and direct services for digital creators.
Leadership Change and Strategic Transformation
It is reported that the terms of this acquisition have not been publicly disclosed. Abel Czupor will take over the leadership from brothers Julian and Paul Zehetmayr. In a subsequent statement, the BabyDoge team announced the news on September 14, noting that with the departure of brothers Julian and Paul Zehetmayr, who had been responsible for rebuilding the platform and its underlying infrastructure for five years, Abel Czupor would take over the future development of LimeWire.
Julian and Paul Zehetmayr bought LimeWire's intellectual property and restarted the brand as early as 2022. At the time, they planned to transform the former peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing service into a music-centered NFT market. According to previous reports, the restarted platform is designed to allow users to purchase and trade music-related digital collectibles, including limited editions, unreleased demonstration tracks, extras and digital peripherals.
Zehetmayr 兄弟表示，他们花费了五年时间围绕可运行的产品和能够支持数百万用户的基础设施重建了 LimeWire。“下一章的目标是将这一基础推向更广泛的受众和社区，”兄弟俩说道，并表示他们认为 Czupor 和 BabyDoge 具备继续开发该平台的实力。
据 Czupor 介绍，LimeWire 目前每月服务 800 万用户。与此同时，BabyDoge 称其生态系统拥有超过 300 万用户的社区。Czupor 将 BabyDoge 描述为 LimeWire 在线独立性的“类 DAO 风格支持者”，而非传统的公司母公司。
聚焦创作者权益与 AI 赋能
LimeWire 的新领导层计划围绕“创作者所有权”、“去中心化存储”和“AI 驱动的内容工具”构建业务生态。Czupor 批评大型科技公司和流媒体平台对创作者作品及数据的控制，他认为艺术家、音乐家、作家和研究人员应对其内容的使用方式拥有更多控制权。
"We are building a platform where AI serves creators, not companies," Czupor said, citing an example where an independent musician could use AI to make albums and release them directly to fans via LimeWire without going through traditional record labels. This model brings LimeWire closer to its root causes of file sharing, while leveraging blockchain infrastructure to manage storage and access rights. The company describes its current product as a platform that integrates file sharing, decentralized storage, and AI-driven content workflow.
LimeWire adopted a different business model in the early stages of its return to the market. In preparation for a 2022 reboot, the Zehetmayr brothers are trying to leverage the brand's popularity among early Internet users to create a mainstream digital collectibles platform. The company initially planned to price products in U.S. dollars and support credit card payments to reduce the need for users to process cryptocurrency when purchasing NFT.
However, by November 2023, LimeWire has been described as an AI-driven content platform with LMWR as its utility token. During this period, LMWR climbed from a low of about $0.05 at the beginning of the year and hit a high of $0.47 in 25 weeks.
LMWR token status remains unchanged
根据公告，此次收购不会用 BabyDoge 的自有代币替换 LMWR。LMWR 将继续作为 LimeWire 生态系统的原生效用代币，用于支付去中心化文件存储费用及访问 AI 工具等服务。此前，LimeWire 已在其基于区块链的内容产品中广泛使用该代币，其效用随着公司从 NFT 向 AI 和去中心化服务的转型而不断发展。
LimeWire 发行代币的计划可追溯至 2022 年的重启。当时，Zehetmayr 兄弟最初提议发行一种代币，持有者可以对某些平台政策及涉及平台上艺术家的决策拥有投票权。该代币最终于 2023 年上线。随后，LimeWire 将 LMWR 定位为涵盖内容发布和其他基于区块链服务的系统的一部分，扩大了最初 NFT 市场计划中设想的角色。
此后，该平台通过 LimeWire Network 进入了去中心化文件存储领域，这是一个被描述为去中心化对象存储网络的服务。在 BabyDoge 的所有权下，预计 LMWR 将在这些产品中保留其角色，而不会因交易而被替换。
品牌历史与未来展望
此次收购发生在 LimeWire 首次出现于早期的 P2P 文件共享时代近 26 年后。原始软件允许用户直接交换音乐和其他文件，并在 2000 年代被广泛使用。其运营最终与美国唱片业协会（RIAA）陷入了漫长的版权纠纷。联邦法院判定原始 LimeWire 构成版权侵权，该服务于 2010 年关闭。
Julian 和 Paul Zehetmayr 后来买下了 LimeWire 名称及相关知识产权，但并未收购原公司。他们的 2022 年重启版利用这一知名品牌的声誉打造了一个 NFT 市场，而非恢复原始软件。在接下来的几年里，LimeWire 逐渐脱离了 primarily 作为 NFT 市场的定位，开发了 AI 内容产品和去中心化存储基础设施。
最新的股权变更使该品牌归属于 BabyDoge，而 Czupor 则负责 LimeWire 的运营。该公司表示，其下一阶段的重点将是赋予创作者对其作品和数据控制权，并在其存储和 AI 服务中全面使用 LMWR。
