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!

  • bestusername@aussie.zoneEnglish
    18·
    5 months ago

    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.

    • Alphane MoonEnglish
      8·
      5 months ago

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

    • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      7·
      5 months ago

      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

      • fernandu00OPEnglish
        5·
        5 months ago

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

    • fernandu00OPEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

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