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I love piracy and seeders

A niche band from Asia I loved as a teenager disbanded in the early 2000s. Due to legal reasons their work is in forever limbo, no Spotify, official YouTube etc. Best you can get is 2nd hand CDs on online marketplaces for a premium.

One guy was seeding a 4GB torrent over on PirateBay from 2008 with every song, music video, numerous interviews etc. Reasons like this is why pirating needs to stay alive. Legend made me want to seed it with him longterm. Now we’re 2 seeders strong.

Keep sailing pirates, and whenever possible please seed.

ChonkaLoo ,

Yes me too. As bad as humanity seems sometimes, always good to remind yourself of the kindness from the likes of seeders in OP.

Flatfire ,

Can I introduce you to soulseek? I promise it’s going to serve way better than torrents for that kind of stuff.

ginza OP ,

soulseek

I have heard of it, but admittingly know very little about it and its strengths. After a quick search there’s a package for my Linux distro so I’ll install it when I got some time to deep dive it and get an understanding.

Thank you tho I will have a good look later tonight. If there’s anything you think I should read/watch regarding Soulseek shoot it through. Nonetheless I’ll continue to seed regardless if I stick with Soulseek.

kirk781 ,
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Use nicotine as the client instead. It’s arguably more user friendly and also stuffed with features. Most nix distros have it in their repos. You just need to share stuff on Soulseek(primarily music though some people share films as well).

Soulseek is filled to the brim with music, especially flac versions of songs.

Ilandar ,

It’s pretty easy to use. The only challenge for newcomers is setting up port-forwarding, since some users won’t share their collection with people who have their ports blocked. You don’t have to open your ports or share your music collection, but it is leeching and considered a dick move by some.

ginza OP ,

Alright so I already had a quick look, sooner than I intended. Got too excited.

At a glance tho I love what I see. There’s an official nicotine+ package in the Pacman repository for Arch Linux so that’s a plus. I forwarded the port with no issue, I got a decent network setup so I got fixed internal IPs and could forwarded the port securely as possible.

It also looks like it plays nicely with how I got my NAS setup and how I mount files internally to my PC. This could be a bit of a rabbit hole and a great learning experience for me. Thanks to everyone for the suggestion/tips.

I’ll love to self-host this down the line on my server so I can better provide everyone with my files even when my usual PC isn’t on.

Flatfire ,

Soulseek is a P2P file sharing system centered around music in particular. It’s pretty direct. Unlike a torrent where you’ll have multiple seeds for a single source, you’re connecting directly to other individuals for the content. It generally operates under the expectation that you’re also sharing something, and some users may opt not to allow downloads to people who do not also allow downloads from themselves. The downside to this system is you may need to wait for that person to come online before you can start a download, while with a torrent, other seeders can fill that gap.

It’s survived as a pretty big platform for music hoarders to source hard to find material, but it’s so dead simple to use and it has a quick and reliable search. Nothing secretive about it, it’s basically just another P2P network that has more in common with Napster than the Pirate Bay

Rai ,

You’ll find the rarest shit on SLSK.

alsaaas ,
@alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I can rly recommend it, especially with Nicotine+

billbennett ,

In that context, it's not really piracy, it's cultural preservation.

Sure... I know lawyers say otherwise,

DeltaTangoLima ,
@DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com avatar

Name the band? Maybe some of us can pitch in.

ginza OP ,

Malice Mizer – thepiratebay.org/description.php?id=4158529

barooboodoo ,

I dunno if I would consider the band that launched gackt as niche but I might be living in a bubble of my own making haha

ginza OP ,

Haha you definitely have a point. I love it how the man practically pretends the band never existed. Last i heard he’s wanted by Japanese law enforcement and has migrated to Malaysia. There will never be a reunion. :(

barooboodoo ,

Holy shit, I’ve got some googling to do!

Rai ,

Daaaamn throwback. They were my friend Sarah (RIP)’s favourite band.

ginza OP ,

Hope it brings you good memories. Sorry for your loss. RIP.

Zoidsberg ,
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The amount of niche old Canadian cartoons I’ve found thanks to dedicated pirates…

catloaf ,

You should upload it to archive.org too.

propter_hog , (edited )
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Yo I’m gonna need some details on that library so I can seed with you. Keeping obscure media alive is my favorite.

jabathekek ,
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