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

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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[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

How do you mean? The lawsuits, or something else?

[–] tacticalsugar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

IA is not a sustainable project, and is built as a single point of failure. It has no transparency and no recovery plan if things go bad. Compare that to Anna's Archive, a project that open sources all of their code and data so that things will continue running even if everyone involved disappears.

Ask yourself: if IA's data was silently modified, would anyone be able to tell?

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Archive the internet archive. /s

Maybe it could be mittigated by inolenenting a new feature to have every website capture receive a unique hash so that it can be checked?

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Society and everything as a whole.
It would need government level of intervention but even that might not be enough.
Just take a look at regular public libraries on how they fare. They look like they barely scrape by at times.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You're doing the "assume everyone online is American" thing. If I take a look at my public libraries here in Australia, they're thriving. My local is in a new building about a decade old. It has a music studio that's free to use for 12-25 year olds, it's open 10am-8pm every day except Sunday. I'm also barely scratching the surface on what it offers, and what it's sister libraries in nearby suburbs offer too.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I am from Germany where libraries arent crippled to death.
Thing most libraries outside of major city centers don't get the funding.
My local library doesnt have a manga section for example. The library in the next city at least has that but also requires a subscription or a single lending fee.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

Okay fair, my apologies. I'm not sure how you classify major city centres, but the library back in my hometown of 120k is thriving too. I actually have cards to multiple library systems, as they all have different online resources. I use my mum's address for our hometown library card! 😂