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!
Yeah, some dickheads apparently want to monetize and should die in a fire, but it doesn’t hurt to ask. Patience usually does the trick, but I need to work out how to filter Private out of search results.
People monetize that??
apparently this happens https://www.reddit.com/r/Soulseek/comments/cs9j02/users_who_charge_to_access_their_files/
Wow… I mean,if you paid for your music and don’t want to share it,OK …just don’t share it
I ran across it somewhere, greed makes it sound plausible, but I have no direct evidence.
I’m gonna try asking for the files thanks
you can hide private files in search results, at least in nicotine
Cool…I’m gonna try that so I don’t get frustrated to find some cool music that I’m not able to download.
Figured that was likely, haven’t found it yet.
Preferences -> Searches -> toggle Show privately shared files in search results
Thanks, literally the second option. Blind!