Welcome to the monthly group stats for April 2024. For a better overview, the tables are divided between PC and Console games (same for DOX, see explanation under notes)....
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.
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 :)
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).
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
Monthly Group Stats (April 2024) (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Welcome to the monthly group stats for April 2024. For a better overview, the tables are divided between PC and Console games (same for DOX, see explanation under notes)....
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