You're welcome, I like to share these stats :)

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.

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.

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

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).

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

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Some nice numbers in there ;) GJ

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 :)

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 :)

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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Love this analogy here 😀

Arrr.

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

You're welcome :)

I've actually build per category feeds last year. The RSS link is also updated per category in the .

https://api.predb.net/feed/section/GAMES/ (GAMES can obviously be replaced by any other category) https://api.predb.net/feed/group/SUXXORS/ (SUXXORS can obviously be replaced by any other group)

https://predb.net/sections/ Here you can find all valid sections. As I'm cleaning up the DB the numbers of each section change overtime.

You're very welcome :)

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

Posting it here and on reddit :)

Haha, thx mate