Making profit from filesharing

Submitted by Alan Smithee on Fri, 03/25/2016 - 05:29
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Soulseek General Discussion

Hello everybody,

I stumbled upon a user only sharing files with his userlistand with the following user info:

Full access to my folders 15$ in month. i have many promos and exclusive releases from beatport. only 320 kbps (not fake) and some wav tracks
paypal: **********
wmz: z993666222986
wmr: R823112234830
After payment please contact me and I will add you to my userlist.
WARNING! IF YOU WILL BE SHARING THIS FILES, I delete you from my list!

Not only does this user ask to be payed for sharing his files, he also forbids to share them along.

I feel Soulseeks strengh lies in its community and a certain etiquette that goes along file sharing. Furtunately, this seems to be a relatively rare practice, but it contradicts in everyway what filesharing is about.

I have not revealed the users alias and email on purpose, as I wanted to consult this forum first.

Is this kind of practice tolerated by Soulseek ? Does it comply with the TOS ?

Submitted by sammy123 on Sun, 03/27/2016 - 12:31.

Hello Alan Smithee
this is surely not Soulseek is all about (hope you think so too Nir). Nir is the one who could pull the trigger on this. I'm just a humble supporter of his idea & work
Unluckily it's easy to camouflage that behavior with a new ID/Name and new IP. the same problem arouse from the private shares or list only shares. It would be OK if I can close such "not for all" sharers out of my share as well per default. Friendly and open (minded) sharing is what Soulseek (the name suggests it) is all about!
Cheers and thanks for discussing such darker areas of Soulseek!