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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by ginza@lemmy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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.

EDIT: For those asking the band is the Japanese band Malice Mizer. The torrent in question is https://thepiratebay.org/description.php?id=4158529 And I love seeing how a few of you guys know the band and getting hit by nostalgia. Enjoy

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[-] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 31 points 3 months ago

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

[-] emhl@feddit.org 3 points 2 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.ml 2 points 2 months ago

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

[-] emhl@feddit.org 6 points 2 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