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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So I saw this post here a couple days ago about music piracy and got interested in soulseek. I've installed nicotine in a docker container and started searching for some music. I've found some pretty hard to find music and this album my father used to have in vynil when I was a kid. Cool. But the files had PRIVATE written on them.. Tried to download but the user did not share them with me. My question is: what's the point of sharing folders in a p2p program and denying access to these folders? I mean..just don't share it if you won't let anybody download it. Am I missing something in order to download this album?

Edit: hey guys I sent a message to the user asking if he could share the folder with me and he answered that he'd added me and I could download whatever I wanted! Great! Thanks for the help!

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Message the user and ask to share it with you.

Personally I think they do it because they like the power of having something rare.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I was surprised that they really do have rare things like some niche Brazilian musicians and they're not even Brazilian

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Inb4 user replies: "what is ur budget to dl"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

i think that it's mostly because they don't want somebody with 0 shared files to download - and i sorta understand that, would be lot cooler if people weren't leeches only, sure, but i can't be bothered to check or enforce. if you have something shared and message them they'll usually allow to download

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Cool..gonna ask them to see if I can download this 60s album from a Brazilian musician

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I haven't used Soulseek in 2 decades. IMO, this sort of behaviour is not legit.