submitted 1 year ago by StickBugged@lemm.ee to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Hello pirates! I've recently started high school, which means that I now get money from the state, which also means that my parents no longer pay for my Spotify premium. I could probably afford it, but I'd rather save my money, so I've been looking into different ways of obtaining music for free.

One thing that really caught my eye is Soulseek. It seems like a good option for my needs + I could set up a server on my raspberry pi to be able to access all of my music from anywhere.

My biggest concern is getting in trouble with the authorities, because my parents would kill me if the cops came knocking on our door due to me pirating stuff. So I was wondering whether it would be worth it to spend some money on a VPN (and which one), or if I should just raw dog it and not use a VPN at all? I live in Sweden, and I haven't found any cases of people getting arrested for pirating music, but it is technically illegal afaik.

Thankful for any answers!

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[-] toxictenement@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

I just want to chime in here to mention its a bit of a pain in the ass to set up soulseek to use a vpn. It needs 2, and unless you use nicotine, you need to have 2 consecutive ports, and afaik theres only one vpn that offers that. You also have to make sure that you allow it through your firewall on both private and public connections. Even after going through all that trouble, some users on soulseek ban VPN IP's. I've only encountered one user doing this so far, and they were a super prick about it.