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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!

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[–] bestusername@aussie.zone 19 points 5 months ago (6 children)

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.

[–] fernandu00@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

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

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