Bootleg Archive is the home of the largest and most detailed database of bootleg recordings on the web; however, this website does not own, collect, possess or distribute any of the media described on these pages. Keep this in mind before you email support offering to purchase or trade for a bootleg you read about here, or send a threatening letter to cease and desist distributing recordings that you own the rights to; there is not, nor has there ever been, anything here for sale, trade or download.

Fortunately, through the magic of Peer-to-Peer file sharing and the Direct Connect protocol, there is a hub we host that is also called Bootleg Archive, and can be accessed by setting up a Direct Connect client and logging into dc.bootlegarchive.com. There 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 this and many other hubs; this is the rule of rules. 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!