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The State of global Piracy - February 2024 (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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🏴‍☠️ AHOY and welcome to the state of global piracy for February 2024! ARRR! 🏴‍☠️

Please let me know if you have ideas about interesting stats, I'll see if I can make it happen.

Enjoy the numbers!

TOTAL SCENE RELEASES BY SECTION

I have a total of 77 sections in my PreDB. The sections in here are combined for a better overview. Numbers in braces are the values from the previous month.

total section
16.689 (19.365) TV (HD)
13.915 (12.639) MP3
8.892 (5.290) FLAC
3.188 (3.740) XXX
3.129 (3.351) EBOOK
2.620 (2.873) MOViES (HD)
1.685 (1.995) TV (SD)
1.290 (1.428) ANiME
981 (1.027) DOCU
776 (884) SPORTS
573 (350) APPS
546 (533) GAMES (PC)
453 (444) GAMES (CONSOLE)
448 (462) MOViES (SD)
170 (242) BOOKWARE
156 (288) MViD
39 (43) ABOOK
11 (6) OTHER

Total: 55.551 (54.960)

TOP 20 GROUPS WITH MOST RELEASES

The sections in here are combined for a better overview, same as above.

total group sections
1. 3.576 (2.177) ↑ +1 BABAS FLAC,MP3
2. 2.750 (2.113) ↑ +1 AFO FLAC,MP3
3. 2.308 (1.827) - PTC FLAC,MP3
4. 2.200 (2.716) ↓ -3 WRB XXX
5. 1.305 (761) ↑ +8 VEXED FLAC
6. 1.259 (1.214) ↑ +1 CBFM MOViES (HD),SPORTS,TV (HD)
7. 1.089 (1.732) ↓ -3 EDITH MOViES (HD),SPORTS,TV (HD)
8. 981 (795) ↑ +2 AMB3R ANiME,MOViES (HD),TV (HD),TV (SD)
9. 971 (1.827) ↑ +47 OBZEN FLAC,MP3
10. 872 (850) ↓ -1 ZzZz MP3
11. 855 (850) ↑ +11 FLAME MOViES (HD),MOViES (SD),TV (HD),TV (SD)
12. 713 (1.272) ↓ -7 CHEOPE TV (HD)
13. 700 (586) ↑ +9 21A1 EBOOK
14. 656 (293) ↑ +30 UOVA MP3
15. 645 (661) ↑ +2 BAWLS DOCU,MOViES (HD),MOViES (SD),TV (HD),TV (SD)
16. 626 (1.260) ↓ -10 NORKiDS TV (HD)
17. 623 (776) ↓ -5 RAGEMP3 MP3
18. 608 (72) ↑ +106 CHOPiN MOViES (HD),TV (HD)
19. 590 (75) ↓ +100 TIMES FLAC
20. 571 (391) ↑ +15 SKYANiME ANiME

TOP 20 MOST NUKED GROUPS

total group
73 AFO
40 LAW
32 ESGFLAC
21 ZzZz
20 KIDENGEE
14 FTD
14 OLLONBORRE
13 RABiDS
10 alpha
10 WESTVLETEREN
9 W4K
8 SuccessfulCrab
8 RUGGED
7 DARKFLiX
6 A4O
6 GARLICKNOTS
5 Unleashed
5 ANESSE
5 WAVED
5 WAV

MOST NUKED SECTIONS

total grouped_section
181 TV (HD)
108 MP3
102 FLAC
38 MOViES (HD)
10 GAMES (PC)
5 APPS
5 MOViES (SD)
5 SPORTS
3 DOCU
2 TV (SD)
2 GAMES (CONSOLE)
2 MViD
1 XXX
1 EBOOK
1 ANiME

ACCUMULATED RELEASE SIZE FOR FEBRUARY 2024

From the 55.551 scene releases, only 30.661 of them had file + size information.

They total to: 30,25 TB (30.257.808 MB) in 333 thousand files (322.964).

No idea about the size of the missing information, so the real value should be much higher.

ARCHIVES

NOTES

  • Only Scene Release Groups, no p2p or individuals.
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

These are nice, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

You're very welcome :)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The "What does nuked mean?" link is broken.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Works for me. It links to the Wikipedia article for Nuke (warez).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

For me it takes me to

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuke_(warez

It's missing the final ")"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What frontend are you using? It sounds like a markdown parsing bug. I'm using Photon on desktop for reference

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sync for Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

happens for me as well on sync

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

works fine on Jerboa

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Works fine on Boost.

I tried Sync for a couple hours before I uninstalled.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So, what's "Sync for lemmy" or Jerboa? I have no clue. The links are working on the web version, it's the only thing I can test or fix :/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They're just smartphone apps as a way to interact with Lemmy, versus visiting it in a browser. If you mostly use Lemmy on desktop, search 'lemmy frontend' for other options.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Ah I see, thx for the info. Also just found the app list now ;)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I really like sync but it's falling behind fast with no updates in months. Might go back to boost, as it was my comfy chair in the reddit days

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Didn't know about this resource before. Good stuff.

Two questions:

Is it possible to get more information about nukings?

What percentage of the scene releases included in your stats above are actively seeded/healthy?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I only have informations about the releases as they are pred, no tracker stuff.

What information about the nukes are you thinking of? Specify it a little bit more and I'll check if I can make it happen :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm new to the concept of nukes, but generally I understood it as a wide concept from the linked wiki. I guess what I wanted to know if it would be possible to see more about why a user has flagged the certain torrent (e.g. the user has submitted some kind of report that malware was discovered when scanning the downloaded files). Maybe I'm overthinking this -- I nearly always am -- but I figured there may be situations where it could be interesting to know, similar to seeing an angry one star review on Amazon and instantly realizing the problem lies with the reviewer when you read the review.

In database form I think it would be most attractive if nukes could be categorized or if there was a possibility for a link to any user generated report on the torrent (but then again I have no idea about which source data you have available on any of this and to what extent I'm just fully misunderstanding "nukes")

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Yes, the nukes actually have reasons, here's one overview: https://predb.net/status/nuked/

But there is something important to understand: we're not talking about torrents here. Torrenting is one of the unsafest ways to actually pirate stuff but for most people it's the easiest.

The Scene has rules on how to release things. If one of these rules are broken, the release will get nuked and the group can release a fix/proper release. Just take a look at some of the reasons on the link I provided :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Why don't so called "release groups" create torrents like normal people what is this warez scene hierarchy circlejerk about??

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)
  1. The circle jerk stuff get's embedded automatically because of the wiki articles (I can't see that on the web version). Read them and you'll understand more.
  2. The scene is not interested in torrenting. Torrent is just the most insecure way to leech whatever you want. Maybe "Normal people" should find alternatives.
  3. Release groups are the first to release anything. Whatever you leech out there was firstly release by a release group.
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

damn downvoted for real information

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah... Don't really understand but whatever ^^ I just tried to answer the question :D

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

cared to read the mentioned Wikipedia articles?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Release groups hate torrents because they can be traced by that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

no release group ever heard of something like a VPN or I2P?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You do know that the scene predates I2P by a long long time,right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

yes and?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

So how exactly were they supposed to use i2p?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

do we live in current year or not?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Good luck migrating the entire infrastructure on a technology that has just started to provide faster than broadband era speeds.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

infrastructure

lmao. it's not that hard to rip a movie and create a torrent

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

A VPN isn't enough to stay safe, not if you're operating at the level of scene release groups. It's the most illegal thing that you can do in the pirate world. It's several years of jail if you get busted. If a kid get caught seeding a torrent, the punishment won't be that harsh, but actually providing the whole world with the most fresh stuff is something different.

If you care about torrents it's fine, but a lot of people don't care about it and have other methods of leeching. You can take a look at FXP (for starters).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Thanks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How neat! Thanks for putting these together for us :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I love to share those :)