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

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

I’d also like an ELI5. I’m not new to the game, but I’ll just say I JUST hopped on the Torrentio bandwagon

These are the total stats of 2023. Like total releases for every cat, group and so on. Everything that got pirated (at least official scene and not p2p groups) in total.

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Sure there was

Boy do I have news for you

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.

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.

Some nice numbers in there ;) GJ

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

I’m here crying with my 2 TB archive

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

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