🏴☠️ 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
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.
- Powered by predb.net
This is really cool – however, as someone who has been a casual pirate for most of my life, but isn’t in the scene per se, I do not truly understand the data I am looking at or what it means. Maybe even more ELI5 for people who are into this but aren’t deep pirates. What context am I looking at? What is scene lowercase as I only see Scene uppercase defined? Etc.
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.
I didn’t know that there was an whole organization of pirates. That’s cool.
Sure there was
💯
Very cool! Small fix - The links to what is Nuke and PreDB are broken.
Really? That’s strange, just tested and it’s working fine (wiki links). Or did a moderator already fixed it?
The PreDB link also takes me to the Nuked article.
Very cool stats.
I setup my Plex in October and have since downloaded 27TB of Movies and TV.
I’m doing my part!
Some nice numbers in there ;) GJ
Arr. Thank ye me matey.
Arrr.
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.
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.
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.
