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

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.

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