Topic: the average soulseek user
Anonymous A started this discussion 3 years ago #109,036
Why are they such gatekeepers? It's embarrassing, frankly.Phatthew Phosteet Philler joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 20 minutes later[^] [v] #1,219,664
Why don't they just buy real, fresh physical media, and cook with it?
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 3 years ago, 21 minutes later, 41 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,219,665
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 24 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,219,666
Based Soulseeker banning soyboy OP
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Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,219,667
Who uses that crap still?
Back when piracy was still a thing normal people did you’d just go to What.CD or Waffles.FM
Soulseek is as bad as limewire you’d get transcoded mp3s with horrible file names and random fake porn viruses that appear no matter what you search
Now days just use Spotify or Apple Music like a normal person, the convenience argument for piracy is dead now
Back when piracy was still a thing normal people did you’d just go to What.CD or Waffles.FM
Soulseek is as bad as limewire you’d get transcoded mp3s with horrible file names and random fake porn viruses that appear no matter what you search
Now days just use Spotify or Apple Music like a normal person, the convenience argument for piracy is dead now
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 3 years ago, 24 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,219,668
@previous (D)
> Who uses that crap still?
A lot of people
> Back when piracy was still a thing normal people did you’d just go to What.CD or Waffles.FM
People on private trackers are even more insufferable. I was on red for a while and deleted my account because of how stuck up their own asses they all were.
> Soulseek is as bad as limewire you’d get transcoded mp3s with horrible file names and random fake porn viruses that appear no matter what you search
This has literally never happened to me in my decade+ experience
> Now days just use Spotify or Apple Music like a normal person, the convenience argument for piracy is dead now
> paying for music when you can get it for free
> Who uses that crap still?
A lot of people
> Back when piracy was still a thing normal people did you’d just go to What.CD or Waffles.FM
People on private trackers are even more insufferable. I was on red for a while and deleted my account because of how stuck up their own asses they all were.
> Soulseek is as bad as limewire you’d get transcoded mp3s with horrible file names and random fake porn viruses that appear no matter what you search
This has literally never happened to me in my decade+ experience
> Now days just use Spotify or Apple Music like a normal person, the convenience argument for piracy is dead now
> paying for music when you can get it for free
Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 34 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,219,671
Do people still pirate music nowadays? Unless you're after something super obscure I don't get it.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 3 years ago, 15 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,219,672
@previous (E)
Really you and anon D are right about streaming. I had Spotify for a while and really enjoyed it. To be honest, dropping it and pirating was due to a combination of two things. 1) I'm currently unemployed and cutting every bit of spending I possibly can, which means I have no streaming services, and no home internet. My only internet access is through my cheap and very limited mobile hotspot. Downloading helps save on data, because I download it once and can listen as many times as I want, as opposed to streaming where you have to download it every time you listen. And 2) I also like to autistically hoard data. It brings me a strange satisfaction to download, store, and organize media like music, films, video games, etc. It's oddly soothing to me.
Really you and anon D are right about streaming. I had Spotify for a while and really enjoyed it. To be honest, dropping it and pirating was due to a combination of two things. 1) I'm currently unemployed and cutting every bit of spending I possibly can, which means I have no streaming services, and no home internet. My only internet access is through my cheap and very limited mobile hotspot. Downloading helps save on data, because I download it once and can listen as many times as I want, as opposed to streaming where you have to download it every time you listen. And 2) I also like to autistically hoard data. It brings me a strange satisfaction to download, store, and organize media like music, films, video games, etc. It's oddly soothing to me.
Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 3 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,219,673
@1,219,668 (A)
@1,219,667 (D)
@1,219,671 (E)
what.cd was the only chill site. they had everything and nobody cared about your ratio and they'd still give u Freeleech tokens. so sad when it went down. haven't pirated much since then. mostly just but new releases and stuff of Bandcamp. may as well have a cassette and a download code if I'm gonna pay
@1,219,667 (D)
@1,219,671 (E)
what.cd was the only chill site. they had everything and nobody cared about your ratio and they'd still give u Freeleech tokens. so sad when it went down. haven't pirated much since then. mostly just but new releases and stuff of Bandcamp. may as well have a cassette and a download code if I'm gonna pay
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Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 2 days later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,219,904
@1,219,667 (D)
> Now days just use Spotify or Apple Music like a normal person, the convenience argument for piracy is dead now
Only retards made the convenience argument.
Digital privacy has and always will be a bullshit victimless crime and I refuse to feel the slightest bit of remorse for doing it. I'm no more responsible for a hypothetical lost sale that I would've never made anyway than I am for the murder of millions of potential lives every time I spill my seed.
> Now days just use Spotify or Apple Music like a normal person, the convenience argument for piracy is dead now
Only retards made the convenience argument.
Digital privacy has and always will be a bullshit victimless crime and I refuse to feel the slightest bit of remorse for doing it. I'm no more responsible for a hypothetical lost sale that I would've never made anyway than I am for the murder of millions of potential lives every time I spill my seed.
Anonymous H double-posted this 3 years ago, 2 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,219,905
@1,219,672 (A)
Why don't you just rip stuff from youtube?
> And 2) I also like to autistically hoard data. It brings me a strange satisfaction to download, store, and organize media like music, films, video games, etc. It's oddly soothing to me.
How much data do you have?
Why don't you just rip stuff from youtube?
> And 2) I also like to autistically hoard data. It brings me a strange satisfaction to download, store, and organize media like music, films, video games, etc. It's oddly soothing to me.
How much data do you have?
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 3 years ago, 12 hours later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,219,984
@previous (H)
> Why don't you just rip stuff from youtube?
I have in the past but only for rare things that I just could not find anywhere else. Soulseek is much easier and more convenient, plus you never know what kind of file you're getting if you rip from Youtube, in terms of how many times it's been transcoded.
> How much data do you have?
Books: 182 GB
Games: 3.49 TB
Music: 185 GB
Movies: 507 GB
Radio: 86.6 GB
Software: 13.8 GB
TV: 1.51 TB
> Why don't you just rip stuff from youtube?
I have in the past but only for rare things that I just could not find anywhere else. Soulseek is much easier and more convenient, plus you never know what kind of file you're getting if you rip from Youtube, in terms of how many times it's been transcoded.
> How much data do you have?
Books: 182 GB
Games: 3.49 TB
Music: 185 GB
Movies: 507 GB
Radio: 86.6 GB
Software: 13.8 GB
TV: 1.51 TB
Anonymous H replied with this 3 years ago, 1 minute later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,219,985
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 3 years ago, 11 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,219,987
@previous (H)
> Porn?
412 GB
> You encrypt all that shit?
No, no point really. The only stuff I have that is encrypted is an offsite backup of ~15 years worth of personal data (387 GB), and that's only because I'm eternally paranoid of something going wrong and someone else somehow getting access to it.
> Porn?
412 GB
> You encrypt all that shit?
No, no point really. The only stuff I have that is encrypted is an offsite backup of ~15 years worth of personal data (387 GB), and that's only because I'm eternally paranoid of something going wrong and someone else somehow getting access to it.
Anonymous H replied with this 3 years ago, 12 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,219,990
@previous (A)
Even if you use proxies for everything, there's a chance all the pirating could come back to get you legally. VPNs are only as good as their word and countless examples from the past and present show that their word isn't always worth that much. Maybe you're fine if you're using tor exclusively, but even that is likely compromised (although that takes a higher level of paranoia to worry about). In any case, I doubt you're using tor if you've downloaded that much data, unless you have the patience of a Tibetan monk.
Speaking of paranoia, there's endless examples all over the earth from the first world to the third of police planting evidence. Using full disk encryption on everything makes that slightly harder. Although maybe you're in one of the many jurisdictions with compelled speech making it virtually impossible to protect yourself even marginally.
Even if you use proxies for everything, there's a chance all the pirating could come back to get you legally. VPNs are only as good as their word and countless examples from the past and present show that their word isn't always worth that much. Maybe you're fine if you're using tor exclusively, but even that is likely compromised (although that takes a higher level of paranoia to worry about). In any case, I doubt you're using tor if you've downloaded that much data, unless you have the patience of a Tibetan monk.
Speaking of paranoia, there's endless examples all over the earth from the first world to the third of police planting evidence. Using full disk encryption on everything makes that slightly harder. Although maybe you're in one of the many jurisdictions with compelled speech making it virtually impossible to protect yourself even marginally.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 3 years ago, 25 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,219,992
@previous (H)
There's certainly a chance, and being the paranoid person I am, of course it's something I've considered. But realistically, the chances are slim. Generally speaking, copyright holders are far more interested in the people who distribute rather than just download. It's something that I decided a long time ago to just not worry about, as long as I do what I can to stay safe.
Full disk encryption is a good idea in general though, whether you pirate or not. It really is something I should look into but I've always put it off.
There's certainly a chance, and being the paranoid person I am, of course it's something I've considered. But realistically, the chances are slim. Generally speaking, copyright holders are far more interested in the people who distribute rather than just download. It's something that I decided a long time ago to just not worry about, as long as I do what I can to stay safe.
Full disk encryption is a good idea in general though, whether you pirate or not. It really is something I should look into but I've always put it off.
Anonymous H replied with this 3 years ago, 16 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,219,998
@previous (A)
Do you backup all this data? If you've got extra drives laying around it should only take you a few hours to get the extras wiped with random data (start and walk away), then formatted, and encrypted. Then run rsync and come back in a few days.
I have two sets of drives myself. I keep one set in a safety deposit box at my bank and the other set are the "live" drives. Every few months I take out the drives from the bank, rsync them, and swap them out. It
makes sure: all my drives are still working, and if there's a fire, theft, or whatever, I've only lost at most a few months of data.
I wouldn't feel comfortable doing any of that if I let any of my data touch an unencrypted drive. Not that I have data remotely interesting to most people, I just don't want random strangers to be able to see what I watch, read, or do in my digital life. And it of course eases my baseless paranoia about government agents coming and copying all my drives for no apparent reason.
Do you backup all this data? If you've got extra drives laying around it should only take you a few hours to get the extras wiped with random data (start and walk away), then formatted, and encrypted. Then run rsync and come back in a few days.
I have two sets of drives myself. I keep one set in a safety deposit box at my bank and the other set are the "live" drives. Every few months I take out the drives from the bank, rsync them, and swap them out. It
makes sure: all my drives are still working, and if there's a fire, theft, or whatever, I've only lost at most a few months of data.
I wouldn't feel comfortable doing any of that if I let any of my data touch an unencrypted drive. Not that I have data remotely interesting to most people, I just don't want random strangers to be able to see what I watch, read, or do in my digital life. And it of course eases my baseless paranoia about government agents coming and copying all my drives for no apparent reason.
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Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 3 years ago, 8 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,220,001
@previous (H)
No, I don't back it up because I'm too cheap to buy additional drives for it, and because all of it is replaceable should a drive die. The 387GB of personal stuff is the only material I have backed up on multiple local drives and offsite, because that's not replaceable. I've read about people doing the safety deposit box thing and I think it's a good idea. The more offsite backups, the better. Similarly, I've had discussions with a trusted friend about swapping drives (encrypted, of course), so he has a backup at my place and I have a backup at his. We never actually got around to doing it though.
No, I don't back it up because I'm too cheap to buy additional drives for it, and because all of it is replaceable should a drive die. The 387GB of personal stuff is the only material I have backed up on multiple local drives and offsite, because that's not replaceable. I've read about people doing the safety deposit box thing and I think it's a good idea. The more offsite backups, the better. Similarly, I've had discussions with a trusted friend about swapping drives (encrypted, of course), so he has a backup at my place and I have a backup at his. We never actually got around to doing it though.
Anonymous H replied with this 3 years ago, 3 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,220,003
@previous (A)
World Backup Day is coming up. I expect you and your friend to not leave us all disappointed.
World Backup Day is coming up. I expect you and your friend to not leave us all disappointed.