For too long imo, piracy had become a “grab it all” environment. The old “Caring is Sharing” mantra seems to have disappeared. So maybe, this Lemmy could revert back 20-30 years to become a real sharing community. IDK.
For too long imo, piracy had become a “grab it all” environment. The old “Caring is Sharing” mantra seems to have disappeared. So maybe, this Lemmy could revert back 20-30 years to become a real sharing community. IDK.
In a similar vein people on soulseek who have all their files locked unless you trade with them, particularly the ones who want gift vouchers and shit like that I feel goes against the community spirit of piracy as a whole. If I get hold of something rare or that has broken street date i’m excited to share it with others who may no be able to get it for whatever reason.
Really pisses me off scrolling through my search results seeing loads of lock symbols with user info listing demands that must be met for you to be oh so privaledged enough to receive a right to download from them. It goes against what I grew up knowing piracy to be, I’m guessing I am a similar age to you though.
And to all you soulseek users listing locked files with lists of demands to access them. Fuck you.
I have ~14k songs (320kbps mp3) on Nicotine+. Always happy to see people download them! If you’re into electronic music, ChuuqoVN is the name.
I’ll have a browse through what you have. If you want “real dubstep” then gimme a search “music4cheese”
Yessir, love me some 140. Added you to my buddy list. I’ll check yours out when you come online.
That’s such a weird attitude to have. I LOVE when I see people have downloaded mp3s or comics off me. Makes me feel like I’m a better person having shared.
Same! I look through my uploaded list and read what other people are getting from me with a warm fuzzy feeling!
Yeah that is annoying as hell. Like I get it if it’s just like “my files are private, I’ll open them if you have shares” but that whole “I need X album FLAC and a $50 baskin robbins gift card and then I might share with you” shit is the lamest thing I’ve ever seen.
The lamest shit i’ve ever seen is someone had thousands of fake folders set up to look like they were seeding but they had 0 actual content shared.
Tbf if the folders were full of files that said “fuck you [Private] assholes” I’d laugh really hard. People should share and reshare, yes, and I do myself, but auto-banning people who are just starting out or making people beg for your [Privates] is for sure more lame than evading said assholes out of spite. At least that is understandable to me, there’s a human element of pettiness to it that speaks to me, whereas the albeit similarly human trait of lording over your stuff and controlling access neurotically resonates less so, since they’re not physical items.
Are they even legit? I always assume that’s some kind of a scam. That they don’t actually have the files, but generate them based on incoming searches to get people to pay them. Because no matter what you are looking for, somehow there is always this one guy who as everything… neatly sorted and locked.
But either way, they are scum and should be ignored.
Im pretty sure, at least in my case, they do have the files. The music I play is pretty damn niche so it wouldnt be worth it for someone to try and run a scam like that imo. Although for more mainstream stuff that could be a possibility, but then if it is more popular usually there are many people sharing it unlocked.
Fuck knows xD
I honestly never noticed it :D is there like a setting to turn off seeing those lock symbol people? I must have that on :D
Amen to locked out slsk “sharers”. Always hated that, though it honestly feels less common than it did back at its peak popularity as a platform.
I used Soulseek for a while, though I eventually stopped because there wasn’t anything interesting there for me. Just music. Music is cool, but I’m mainly looking for ROMs, and not just the stuff anyone can find in any No-Intro set within five seconds of googling.