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
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    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
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      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.