A niche band from Asia I loved as a teenager disbanded in the early 2000s. Due to legal reasons their work is in forever limbo, no Spotify, official YouTube etc. Best you can get is 2nd hand CDs on online marketplaces for a premium.

One guy was seeding a 4GB torrent over on PirateBay from 2008 with every song, music video, numerous interviews etc. Reasons like this is why pirating needs to stay alive. Legend made me want to seed it with him longterm. Now we’re 2 seeders strong.

Keep sailing pirates, and whenever possible please seed.

  • Flatfire@lemmy.caEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Can I introduce you to soulseek? I promise it’s going to serve way better than torrents for that kind of stuff.

    • ginza@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      6 months ago

      You were bang on about Soulseek. I’ve spent quite a bit of time on it now and love it. I’m in the works of deploying an instance on a server for 24/7 uploading. Thank you for the recommendation.

      Edit: 24/7 server up and running. Pointed to my Jellyfin partition which has all my music, films, TV shows (and ebooks/manga since I set it up poorly back in the day)

    • emhl@feddit.orgEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I don’t really get, why people praise soulseek so much. It lacks the resilience of torrents. There is much cool stuff, but no quality control and structure. And the cool old stuff is artificially locked in order to keep it rare.

      • ginza@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Can you elaborate on what you mean by “artificially locked in order to keep it rare”?

        • emhl@feddit.orgEnglish
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          6 months ago

          You can lock the files you’re sharing, so that other people can see them, but are unable to download. Unless they are specifically allowed to do so. Many people that do this only unlock the files if you have something good to trade (that’s also locked) or you pay them

      • Flatfire@lemmy.caEnglish
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        6 months ago

        I don’t know about the latter half of your statement, but my main reason for its use is pretty simply just that there’s more music available, and it doesn’t take all the time it normally would to get invited to a good music tracker. If anything, specialized Torrent trackers that could offer the same volume of music are a much bigger pain go deal with.

    • ginza@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      6 months ago

      soulseek

      I have heard of it, but admittingly know very little about it and its strengths. After a quick search there’s a package for my Linux distro so I’ll install it when I got some time to deep dive it and get an understanding.

      Thank you tho I will have a good look later tonight. If there’s anything you think I should read/watch regarding Soulseek shoot it through. Nonetheless I’ll continue to seed regardless if I stick with Soulseek.

      • Ilandar@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        6 months ago

        It’s pretty easy to use. The only challenge for newcomers is setting up port-forwarding, since some users won’t share their collection with people who have their ports blocked. You don’t have to open your ports or share your music collection, but it is leeching and considered a dick move by some.

        • ginza@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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          6 months ago

          Alright so I already had a quick look, sooner than I intended. Got too excited.

          At a glance tho I love what I see. There’s an official nicotine+ package in the Pacman repository for Arch Linux so that’s a plus. I forwarded the port with no issue, I got a decent network setup so I got fixed internal IPs and could forwarded the port securely as possible.

          It also looks like it plays nicely with how I got my NAS setup and how I mount files internally to my PC. This could be a bit of a rabbit hole and a great learning experience for me. Thanks to everyone for the suggestion/tips.

          I’ll love to self-host this down the line on my server so I can better provide everyone with my files even when my usual PC isn’t on.

      • Flatfire@lemmy.caEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Soulseek is a P2P file sharing system centered around music in particular. It’s pretty direct. Unlike a torrent where you’ll have multiple seeds for a single source, you’re connecting directly to other individuals for the content. It generally operates under the expectation that you’re also sharing something, and some users may opt not to allow downloads to people who do not also allow downloads from themselves. The downside to this system is you may need to wait for that person to come online before you can start a download, while with a torrent, other seeders can fill that gap.

        It’s survived as a pretty big platform for music hoarders to source hard to find material, but it’s so dead simple to use and it has a quick and reliable search. Nothing secretive about it, it’s basically just another P2P network that has more in common with Napster than the Pirate Bay

      • kirk781@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Use nicotine as the client instead. It’s arguably more user friendly and also stuffed with features. Most nix distros have it in their repos. You just need to share stuff on Soulseek(primarily music though some people share films as well).

        Soulseek is filled to the brim with music, especially flac versions of songs.

  • billbennett@piefed.socialAfaraf
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    6 months ago

    In that context, it’s not really piracy, it’s cultural preservation.

    Sure… I know lawyers say otherwise,

  • Zoidsberg@lemmy.caEnglish
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    6 months ago

    The amount of niche old Canadian cartoons I’ve found thanks to dedicated pirates…

  • ChonkaLoo@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Yes me too. As bad as humanity seems sometimes, always good to remind yourself of the kindness from the likes of seeders in OP.

  • lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Similar experience: One guy was seeding all of the old uncensored episodes of The Three Investigators and I’m so grateful for that. It’s pretty popular here in Germany, but despite that, no one seems to share it. There are episodes on Spotify, but they are censored and some of the music has been replaced with a modern rendition.

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    6 months ago

    seeders who continue seeding weeks and month after the download is complete are basically mercy from overwatch

    • dmention7@lemm.eeEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Is that not the normal? I just started sailing again recently, and I legit feel bad having to clear out an old torrent to make room for something new.

      • themurphy@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        6 months ago

        I felt the same, but there’s just things that’s forever popular. I don’t mind not seeding, if there’s already 200+ doing it.

        But for all the niche things, and for personal favorites, I’ll seed for a loooong time.

  • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮@lemm.eeEnglish
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    6 months ago

    If only I had disk space but between 500 GB Skyrim VR and 500 GB msfs and few other such things my measly 5tb space is crowded.
    And the problem with these big modded games is that once you uninstall it it is very time consuming to reproduce same result. Modded Skyrim VR for example modlist was long ago abandoned for something much smaller because it was impossible to maintain by the author. I need to buy some kind of oversized HDD and store such modded games maybe packing them with some kind of installer. It would be nice to rent cloud space for kind of custom steam for modded games.

    I remember when 1tb was like a lot and nowadays I have like 20 of such disks around the house and still drowning in data, maybe because of around 15 tb of family photos and videos.

    So with all that I feel like I have only 100gb for permanent seeding because that space goes first I guess. I am so drowning in data. Even have 4 old phones waiting perpetually for recovering data maybe it is gone already actually f knows. I think I need at some point to buy 50 tb drive for 1500 or so. Painful purchase but like I don’t see any other way

    • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      6 months ago

      8TB disks are reasonable to get nowadays. Get a NAS that you can slot 6 of them in, set up parity raid and you got 40TB easily accessible, decently redundant storage. Much better than a single 40TB disk, and probably still cheaper

      • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮@lemm.eeEnglish
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        6 months ago

        I want to utilise my old rasp pi and/or 10400f “old” matx pc with all parts. I need some kind of central home server for storage, jellyfin, seeding torrents and some other self hosted cool things but I am still figuring out where to physically put it even and what kind of case and too many decisions left me paralysed to be honest. As I also want it to look cool. Maybe I will just try to score some used server. In other words I want to do everything and so I don’t really have anything yet but some day it will kick in and I will do it in two days probably

  • texasspacejoey@lemmy.caEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I was looking for a show and i finally found it. There was 1 seeder and it took forEVER! I now have a ratio of 300. I will not stop sharing that until i have to.