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

  • Varyag@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 months ago

    We all need to be our own archivists in this day and age. The internet isn't forever, it's a constantly burning Library of Alexandria. I'm glad you found your lost media again.

  • ChonkaLoo@lemmy.zip
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    4 months ago

    Yes me too. As bad as humanity seems sometimes, always good to remind yourself of the kindness from the likes of seeders in OP.

  • propter_hog [any, any]
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    4 months ago

    Yo I'm gonna need some details on that library so I can seed with you. Keeping obscure media alive is my favorite.

  • nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip
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    4 months ago

    Upload them to YouTube or Bilibili. Japanese music fandom tends to archive everything that not available anymore on YouTube and rarely get taken down.

    That way, newer generation can discover them. Just like city pop.

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 months ago

      OPs case might have even be easier to solve by using search terms in the respective language. Might not have been the same result and more manual work but maybe satisfactory results.

      • ginza@lemmy.ml
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        4 months ago

        From what I understand the (Japanese) band official wrote the band name with the Latin alphabet. The band had a slight international presence in France if I'm not mistaken with their 2nd last album getting a limited CD release, so maybe a pirate site catering more to the Japanese or French crowd might have yielded better results in hindsight.

  • lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 months ago

    Similar experience: One guy was seeding all of the old uncensored episodes of The Three Investigators and I'm so grateful for that. It's pretty popular here in Germany, but despite that, no one seems to share it. There are episodes on Spotify, but they are censored and some of the music has been replaced with a modern rendition.

  • tamagotchicowboy [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    Almost all the films and games I've interacted with came from a little pirate-jammin , otherwise it just wouldn't be accessible for me.

  • Packet [none/use name]
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    4 months ago

    Similar experience I had, a little over 2 people seeded castle knights, a little indie project that had dropped development a while ago. So sad for it to be gone like that, not finished. It was very cool to see a little army seeding the project still

  • Flatfire@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

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

    • ginza@lemmy.ml
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      4 months ago

      soulseek

      I have heard of it, but admittingly know very little about it and its strengths. After a quick search there's a package for my Linux distro so I'll install it when I got some time to deep dive it and get an understanding.

      Thank you tho I will have a good look later tonight. If there's anything you think I should read/watch regarding Soulseek shoot it through. Nonetheless I'll continue to seed regardless if I stick with Soulseek.

      • Flatfire@lemmy.ca
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        4 months ago

        Soulseek is a P2P file sharing system centered around music in particular. It's pretty direct. Unlike a torrent where you'll have multiple seeds for a single source, you're connecting directly to other individuals for the content. It generally operates under the expectation that you're also sharing something, and some users may opt not to allow downloads to people who do not also allow downloads from themselves. The downside to this system is you may need to wait for that person to come online before you can start a download, while with a torrent, other seeders can fill that gap.

        It's survived as a pretty big platform for music hoarders to source hard to find material, but it's so dead simple to use and it has a quick and reliable search. Nothing secretive about it, it's basically just another P2P network that has more in common with Napster than the Pirate Bay

      • kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de
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        4 months ago

        Use nicotine as the client instead. It's arguably more user friendly and also stuffed with features. Most nix distros have it in their repos. You just need to share stuff on Soulseek(primarily music though some people share films as well).

        Soulseek is filled to the brim with music, especially flac versions of songs.