BOOTLEG ARCHIVE
SocialMusic.fm's legendary Direct Connect hub for Collectors and Traders
Bootleg Archive can be accessed by setting up a Direct Connect client (links to the most popular models can be found here). At our hub, you will find individual collectors who share and trade bootlegs with each other, as long as they meet the requirements and obey the rules of the community.
All of the music and video shared in the hub is FREE of charge; in fact, anybody found to be selling or profiting from what they have downloaded will find themselves banned for life from participating. Also, sharing commercially released material is strictly forbidden and will also get you banned. Only unreleased or otherwise unavailable music can be found here, and is traded by collectors and fans solely for their personal enjoyment.
Though everything found in the hub is freely available, joining our community is hardly a free ride, and is not for everybody. The members here are serious collectors, and there are stringent requirements on how recordings must be prepared and encoded for trading, to ensure the highest level of quality. For instance, lossy compression schemes such as mp3 and real audio are illegal; all audio must be encoded in one of three accepted lossless formats. What you listen to on your iPod is your own business, but what you share with the others in the hub is everybody's business here!
The following informative pages explain how to prepare and join our online community. Good luck!
Joining the SocialMusic Community
Direct Connect Network
Registering and Gearing Up for Audio Trading
Frequently Asked Questions
New Member Registration Page
DC Clients and Software Tools