VPN needed for using Soulseek? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by Sunny@slrpnk.net to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Hiya,

Working on completely replacing Spotify completely. Soulseek has popped up a few times here and there among forums and here on lemmy, so I thought I'd give that a go. I've started with getting Nicotine+ client and seems to be working fine. However, what does the traffic look like when downloading/uploading things over the Soulseek network? I read its peer-to-peer network, but does that mean I don't need a VPN? I'm also told to open a port on my router, I'm assuming this is so that I can share my own library with the rest of the network, but how safe is this?

If anyone could help my clarify this I'd greatly appreciate it!

Edit: Just found this very promising project too! https://github.com/slskd/slskd

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[-] Blxter@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 weeks ago

For clarity only reason I have kept doing this is my understanding of how a complaint would be filed to me. Since Soulseek is "peer-to-peer" in the sense that you're connecting from one peer to another peer directly. There is little chance of a copyright trolls to scan for your IP address unlike joining a torrent tracker where they can write down all IP they see in that swarm. If I am completely off please let me know lol