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Welcome to the first edition of yearly scene releases stats for 2023.
I’ve already posted this to the piracy subreddit and now here.
Are you guys interested in these kind of stats? I already provide some other (game related) reddit communitites with stats and thought it could be also interesting for more general statistics about all piracy sections. Please let me know if you have ideas about interesting stats, I’ll see if I can make it happen.
I have a total of 77 sections in my PreDB. The sections in here are combined for a better overview. Numbers in brackets show the change to the values relative to the previous year.
total
section
238.311 (-9.154)
TV (HD)
171.114 (-2.408)
MP3
56.891 (+36.613)
FLAC
52.172 (+15.819)
EBOOK
46.860 (-616)
XXX
28.758 (+7.976)
MOViES (HD)
26.297 (-6.938)
TV (SD)
18.561 (+567)
DOCU
15.287 (+8.014)
ANiME
9.986 (-2.370)
SPORTS
7.548 (+654)
MOViES (SD)
6.861 (+6.171)
APPS
6.835 (+3.542)
GAMES (PC)
4.415 (-6.701)
ABOOK
3.369 (+123)
GAMES (CONSOLE)
2.548 (-550)
MViD
1.210 (-1500)
BOOKWARE
47 (+37)
OTHER
Total: 697.070 scene releases in 2023
So, biggest increases to 2022 would be FLAC music releases, EBOOK’s, ANiME, GAMES (PC) and MOViES (HD). Huge losses on ABOOK’s, BOOKWARE and TV (SD). The APPS section may be faulty for 2022, have to check the data.
TOP 20 GROUPS WITH MOST RELEASES
The sections in here are combined for a better overview, same as above.
Practically “Nuked” means “don’t spread” to other servers and “disgrace” for the release group ;)
Another example:
A group with a lot of releases have a higher chance of getting more nukes.
AFO had 22.576 releases and 256 nukes.
I checked the nukes and most of them are so called “dupe” nukes. That means, another group released the same “thing” before them. So the other group won the race.
Why would the scene need two versions of the same thing? That’s wasted space on the harddrive, so the later release gets nuked. That’s what happened a lot to AFO in 2023. Another group was just faster
spotify is cool and all but it doesnt give you media rights of any kind, and it still requires proprietary software. All of my music that i listen to is raw audio files, flac, mp3, etc. I refuse to use anything else.
The sheer flexibility of being able to stuff it into cmus/jellyfin or whatever other software i feel like using is just too much.
For the average internet going pirate, it’s going to be a lot easier to just rip music from the usual suspect, rather than go pull up a bandcamp or whatever. Though at least with music its a lot easier to support artists without purchasing their work. So meh.
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More book releases than porn releases? This is indeed the weird timeline.
I was going to say that there’s hope yet for humanity. But then I realized that the books category probably includes doujins
What does nuked mean in this context?
You can read more about nukes here (also linked on the top of the post).
TLDR A release can get nuked for different reasons:
Practically “Nuked” means “don’t spread” to other servers and “disgrace” for the release group ;)
Another example:
A group with a lot of releases have a higher chance of getting more nukes.
AFO had 22.576 releases and 256 nukes.
I checked the nukes and most of them are so called “dupe” nukes. That means, another group released the same “thing” before them. So the other group won the race.
Why would the scene need two versions of the same thing? That’s wasted space on the harddrive, so the later release gets nuked. That’s what happened a lot to AFO in 2023. Another group was just faster
Thanks, I wouldn’t have asked if I saw it at the top of the post my eyes glazed over that.
Wow music is still a big thing being pirated right? I thought that Spotify had kill music piracy but it seems it still going strong.
Yes, and it makes sense for “poorer” countries. Not everybody can buy something for $10, so pirating is actually very inclusive for the whole world.
spotify is cool and all but it doesnt give you media rights of any kind, and it still requires proprietary software. All of my music that i listen to is raw audio files, flac, mp3, etc. I refuse to use anything else.
The sheer flexibility of being able to stuff it into cmus/jellyfin or whatever other software i feel like using is just too much.
For the average internet going pirate, it’s going to be a lot easier to just rip music from the usual suspect, rather than go pull up a bandcamp or whatever. Though at least with music its a lot easier to support artists without purchasing their work. So meh.