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To anyone who thinks music piracy is dead (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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!

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah fuck those traders and scammers. Soulseek isn't created for that shit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Convenience can win over piracy. Music and videogames proved that