cross-posted from: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/726542

I have ~100 users downloaded ~1000 of my files in the last week alone. Music piracy is still alive and kicking. I encourage everyone to download and install SoulseekQT/Nicotine+/Seeker-Android and share whatever kind of music you have for everybody to download. Let’s bring back music piracy!

  • TornadoValley@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    251·
    1 year ago

    Music piracy isn’t dead but it’s a shell of what it was. You can see even here most people would rather just stream

    Soulseek needs more users though as the proportion of locked file users keeps increasing

    • RGB3x3@lemmy.worldEnglish
      72·
      1 year ago

      Tbh, why pirate music when I can listen to a new album within 5 seconds of its release? I don’t have to wait for downloads, don’t have to deal with mistaken metadata, I don’t have to worry about physical storage sizes.

      I fully support piracy for basically everything, but we should count ourselves lucky that music streaming went the way it did and not the way movie and series streaming has gone.

      • TornadoValley@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        You don’t own the music so it can be edited/taken away as desired by the DSP

        Also me personally very little of what I listen to is on DSPs and a lot isn’t even on YouTube but I recognize this as an extreme outlier

      • elghoto@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        If a band is popular, albums get ripped/downloaded from streaming services and put on private music trackers within hours of release.

        If you don’t have space, like recommendations from streaming services, or their app, or not wanting to catalog your music (or setup services that do that), then I would recommend a streaming application.