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The state of Piracy worldwide - 2023 statistics (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by maluco@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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🏴‍☠️ AHOY fellow pirates and happy new pirate year to all! ARRR! 🏴‍☠️

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.

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 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.

total	group	sections
32.469	BABAS	FLAC, MP3
29.611	WRB	XXX
22.848	PTC	FLAC, MP3
22.576	AFO	APPS, FLAC, MOViES (SD), MP3
21.012	EDITH	MOViES (HD), SPORTS, TV (HD), TV (SD)
14.750	CBFM	MOViES (HD), SPORTS, TV (HD), TV (SD)
12.463	BitBook	EBOOK
11.572	HiggsBoson	MOViES (HD), MOViES (SD), TV (HD), TV (SD)
10.783	AMB3R	ANiME, DOCU, MOViES (HD), MOViES (SD), TV (HD), TV (SD)
10.723	SKYFiRE	MOViES (HD), TV (HD)
10.319	KNOWN	MP3
10.186	ZzZz	MP3
9.818	NORKiDS	TV (HD), TV (SD)
9.213	ENRiCH	ABOOK, FLAC, MP3
8.425	LiBRiCiDE	EBOOK
7.746	DECiPHER	EBOOK
7.325	VEXED	FLAC
7.017	FLAME	MOViES (HD), MOViES (SD), TV (HD), TV (SD)
6.787	DiMEPiECE	MOViES (HD), TV (HD)
6.119	WAYNE	DOCU,MOViES (HD), TV (HD)

TOP 20 MOST NUKED GROUPS

total	group
256	AFO
244	N0WAY
201	AZR
180	BRAVERY
169	BREWS
100	DiMEPiECE
100	SKYFiRE
99	PARiAH
96	WAYNE
95	CBFM
93	URANiME
86	AMB3R
81	HiggsBoson
65	A4O
65	FAWR
64	BABAS
50	KNOWN
47	DOKUMANiA
43	UVU
43	FHC

MOST NUKED SECTIONS

total	section
2190	TV (HD)
743	MP3
525	MOViES (HD)
277	FLAC
199	GAMES (CONSOLE)
152	TV (SD)
144	DOCU
104	ANiME
96	GAMES (PC)
77	MOViES (SD)
66	EBOOK
47	APPS
33	XXX
20	MViD
15	SPORTS
1	ABOOK

ACCUMULATED RELEASE SIZE FOR 2023

From the 697.070 scene releases, 454.037 of them have file + size information.

They total to: 754.73 TB (754.729.230 MB) in 8.3 million files (8.280.197).

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

NOTES

Only Scene Release Groups, no p2p or individuals.
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[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 41 points 10 months ago

More book releases than porn releases? This is indeed the weird timeline.

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago

I was going to say that there's hope yet for humanity. But then I realized that the books category probably includes doujins

[-] maluco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago

Indeed interesting, I think a lot of mags in there, daily stuff

[-] small44@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

I didn't know that there was an whole organization of pirates. That's cool.

[-] UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago

the captains!

[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

You have a choice to make. You take the blue pill... the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill... you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.

[-] maluco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

Love this analogy here 😀

[-] maluco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

💯

[-] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Sure there was

[-] Regalia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago

Boy do I have news for you

[-] Apollo2323@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 13 points 10 months ago

FLAC is going strong I'd say. MP3s are a different matter where you can only find the most popular stuff and some incredible niche stuff. The coverage is piss poor. Further I'd say it's equally YouTube that killed music piracy (in the scene sense). Anyone can just run a YouTube downloader and find just about any song they're interested in. And if you think they quality of that sucks then you can find most of the lossless stuff in scene releases.

[-] maluco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] Oderus@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Very cool stats.

I setup my Plex in October and have since downloaded 27TB of Movies and TV.

I'm doing my part!

[-] maluco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

Some nice numbers in there ;) GJ

[-] Oderus@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Arr. Thank ye me matey.

[-] maluco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

Arrr.

[-] Scrollone@feddit.it 2 points 10 months ago

Wow! That's great. How much did you spend for so much space?

I'm here crying with my 2 TB archive

[-] Oderus@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

They're $265 CAD for each 10TB Western Digital Red Drives and I bought 4. They're NAS drives and so they're spinning platters and not solid state but it's fine for my needs.

I also bought an i5 desktop with a 1TB NVMe drive, 16GB of RAM for $900 CAD that runs at PCIe gen 4x4 and with the unRAID OS installed, it'll auto-tier between NVMe and the 10TB drives. Works like a hot damn and it's cheaper and faster than a NAS from QNAP with the Celeron processor.

[-] hexabs@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Very cool! Small fix - The links to what is Nuke and PreDB are broken.

[-] maluco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

Really? That's strange, just tested and it's working fine (wiki links). Or did a moderator already fixed it?

[-] TheGreenGolem@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

The PreDB link also takes me to the Nuked article.

[-] akwd169@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Predb link takes you to a section of the nuked article that explains what predb means in this context so nothing wrong there

All links working fine for me

[-] TheGreenGolem@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Gotcha. The problem was that it took me to a general Wikipedia page of "Did you think of...." because the trailing bracket gets cut. Either because of Sync or Firefox, I don't know. I have that problem since forever. And the general page don't preserve the section link.

[-] SeedyOne@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

Some very interesting stats. I wondered who might take over as RARBG exited the scene.

[-] Gooey0210@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

Tbh, last year i started downloading and reading books more often(or at all)

And if i would have downloaded anything before i would do it from library websites, but since the last year i started doing it from tackers

[-] bayank@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

What does nuked mean in this context?

[-] maluco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You can read more about nukes here (also linked on the top of the post).

TLDR A release can get nuked for different reasons:

Not compliant to official scene rules
Dupe (means: another group was faster)
Not working (Game crack doesn't work)
Etc.

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