wicked keeper wrote:
Helm -get over yourself and stop being a psuedo-intellectual self-righteous twat ,you obviously think your above everyone and are clearly another one of these "I'm smarter and more enlightened than the average dumb Metalhead" types that seem to be a dime-a-dozen these days particularly on Metal forums. Keep your self-important moral superiority to yourself and stop lecturing and talking down to everyone with your p.c. bullshit.
A post that doesn't exist?! Oh well. 'twat' seems to be the current internet insult of choice. You insult me for playing better-than-the-rest when in fact I am doing the opposite, trying to stick my neck out for the so-called 'idiots'. Whatever your problem is, it's not me.
What do you mean I conveniently invented Idiots,these people are idiots if they think I should cater to their downloading needs and just give them any album they want because they "don't have the time to bother with it".
I don't think you should do anything you don't want to do. But I also don't see where the value judgement comes on people who download files from you. Why are they idiots? Because you didn't search on someone else's files instead of yours first? It's file-sharing, they input a filename and you come up, that's all.
It's funny to me that you're being so sanctimonious about your selection of metal rarities and how it's for 'the good people' only, much of which you've accumulated is as you've said yourself by drive-by leeching when people with large collections are sleeping and can't ban you. You've built your collection then, on the biggest reason-for-banning most users hold to in soulseek: leeching without sharing.
those are the type of people I refer to, so what if someone approaches you online and says give me every mp3 on your computer I seriously doubt you will.
As long as they're sharing files as well, and they download one album at a time from me (so other people can also get what they need) I have no problem with that. It's not mine. I
downloaded it from the internet. From like-minded people.
Maybe your friend should find it himself,the recording itself is illegal to begin with and should be kept outside of general public knowledge or metallica may take legal action.
We're discussing file-sharing, which is illegal altogether. Do you think tape-trading is legal? And what do you mean 'find it himself'? That's what he was trying to do! Someone has it, you politely ask if they could give you a copy.
You can usually tell if someone wants the music and if someone just wants to leech tons of albums. I don't believe I should share with others if they have nothing to share as well.
I don't share with people that don't share either. Is that your bottom-line in terms of who is worth sharing with? If they're sharing for example, 2 records, Master of Puppets and Holy Diver, would you share with them?
Helm needs to clarify his true argument, he seems to imply I should cater to people who are of a higher social status
Not at all. It is you who has labeled a group of people of nebulous distinction 'idiots' and to that I object to. I don't consider anyone of higher or lower social status in the group of priviledged computer-with-fast-connection-owning people.
nd I should just give files to fly by night leechers.
You mean like the people that say such things?:
I will admit I had to leech quite a bit from people who shared with everyone before I had enough to share to gain access to the music nazi's files I am not ashamed as that is the only way I could gain access to the rare gems,
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I think the biggest problem with filesharing networks is the anonymity of it all.
I agree. On soulseek I've had many people come to me and tell me 'gosh that record is really great, thanks for sharing!' and I've done the same, and shot the shit about what else is similar and where else to look. I've made a few wonderful aquaintances from soulseek. It's not as faceless as torrents are, and yeah, the people that seem the most grateful and vocal about it are those that are searching for rarities.
