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Some questions about Soulseek (lemm.ee)

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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[–] 000999@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

If the only reason you want to use soulseek is to save money, then paying for a VPN wouldn't work out that much cheaper than Spotify premium as far as I'm aware. As you are appear rather paranoid, perhaps a modded Spotify frontend would be best.

However, a VPN isn't really necessary for soulseek as it is ptp.

But, I would actually (obviously) recommended switching to soulseek as that allows you to build your own library of lossless audio files, which then of course involves spending large sums of money on high capacity drives but is a fun hobby to have.

[–] StickBugged@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You say that a VPN isn't needed for Soulseek because it is ptp (peer to peer I assume?), but I thought that was the same "thing" as torrents use, which I'm fairly certain you pretty much need a VPN for?

[–] 000999@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sorry,I should have written P2P. A vpn is advisable for public tracker torrents but not necessary for private trackers. Yes torrents can/are also p2p but public trackers are, by nature, not necessarily safe to use your real IP on. With soulseek you're downloading directly from one user's computer so the risk of getting a criminal charge is basically nonexistent as far as I know. https://www.reddit.com/r/Soulseek/comments/qs4qud/im_new_at_soulseek_do_i_need_to_use_vpn/

By the way, anyone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong in any way here

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