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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.


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NOTES

  • Only Scene Release Groups, no p2p or individuals.
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[–] strahlemann@feddit.de 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??

[–] maluco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 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.
[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

damn downvoted for real information

[–] maluco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago

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

[–] spiderman@ani.social 5 points 8 months ago

cared to read the mentioned Wikipedia articles?

[–] SchizoDenji@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] strahlemann@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] SchizoDenji@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] strahlemann@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] SchizoDenji@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

So how exactly were they supposed to use i2p?

[–] strahlemann@feddit.de 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

do we live in current year or not?

[–] SchizoDenji@lemm.ee 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.

[–] strahlemann@feddit.de -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

infrastructure

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

[–] maluco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 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).