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Old 02-26-2019, 09:30 AM  
AdultKing
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Data: How long between studio release and availability on tubes and torrents?

How long do you think it takes for a brand new release by a studio to appear on some tubes and torrent sites?

This is something I was wondering, so I decided to delve into the data.

On the 1st February I launched some code to query my web crawlers and other sources.

I followed 40 top studio and paysite network Twitter accounts and some PR company accounts.

Then I set about running quick crawls across a sample of tubes and torrent sites.

Each time a new release was announced a time stamp was created of the first official channel sighting of the release, then a quick crawl began over 8 tube sites and 17 torrent sites.

This data sample ended today and the results are shocking (at least to me).

The shortest time measured between an announcement of a release and it's 1080p resolution availability for download or viewing was 7 minutes and 44 seconds.

The longest time measured between an announcement of a release and it's 1080p resolution availability for download or viewing was 2 hours 19 minutes 09 seconds*

The average time measured between an announcement of a release and it's 1080p resolution availability for download or viewing was 18 minutes 31 seconds

When a studio, producer or pay site network announce a release there is almost no time between the release and its availability though torrents or some tubes.

I placed a star * next to the longest time measured because this excludes titles that were not released in the sample period. Over the sample period just a few announced titles never made it to tubes or torrent sites.

Am I out of touch to even be surprised by the speed of these releases?
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