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The State of global Piracy - February 2024 (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 9 months ago by maluco@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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

What does "Nuked" mean?

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.

NOTES

Only Scene Release Groups, no p2p or individuals.
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[-] potajito@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago

These are nice, thanks!

[-] maluco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 months ago

You're very welcome :)

[-] Swarfega@lemm.ee 13 points 9 months ago

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

[-] konalt@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

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

[-] Swarfega@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

For me it takes me to

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

It's missing the final ")"

[-] konalt@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

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

[-] Swarfega@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

Sync for Lemmy

[-] histic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago

happens for me as well on sync

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

works fine on Jerboa

[-] Synnr@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 months ago

Works fine on Boost.

I tried Sync for a couple hours before I uninstalled.

[-] 6daemonbag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 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

[-] maluco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago

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 :/

[-] Synnr@sopuli.xyz 3 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] maluco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago

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

[-] strahlemann@feddit.de 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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.
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.
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 9 months ago

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 9 months ago

cared to read the mentioned Wikipedia articles?

[-] SchizoDenji@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

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

[-] strahlemann@feddit.de 1 points 9 months ago

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

[-] SchizoDenji@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

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

[-] strahlemann@feddit.de 1 points 9 months ago

yes and?

[-] SchizoDenji@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

So how exactly were they supposed to use i2p?

[-] strahlemann@feddit.de 3 points 9 months ago

do we live in current year or not?

[-] SchizoDenji@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

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 9 months ago

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).

[-] Bloodh0undJohnson@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

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?

[-] maluco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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 :)

[-] Bloodh0undJohnson@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

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")

[-] maluco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 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 :)