[6] Contrary to what the term implies, a nuke does not actually destroy offending content or prevent anyone from downloading it.
It kept a history of releases that were moved offline by storing the DIZ files included in the ZIPs.
These dupe check scripts or programs allows users to search warez releases by date or name.
Katman, a siteop of Quadcon (QC), created a native win95 program named WinDupe.
It let the user connect to an SQL database, offering greater speed and flexibility over the IRC bots.
[7] Titles can only be officially labeled as "nuked" by people who have special access to a listing database, often referred to as "nukers".
ZoNeNET, EthNet and oneNET confirmed the precedent to leave both releases unnuked when groups pre within the same second.
One example is when a fake name is shared to monitor communication between bots and networks, but the record is later deleted with leak.test as the reason.
To check if a release is nuked, a scener uses an IRC channel to query the database by typing commands.
[26] The database is updated automatically through spidering topsites or by catching pre-release announcements from site channels.
[24] The purpose of these different worldwide and mirrored pre databases is to check for fakes and that for example a music album or movie isn't pred more than once and thus reducing traffic.
According to TorrentFreak these websites are "simple archives of information that cannot be claimed by copyright holders, but anti-piracy companies apparently cannot tell the difference between reporting news and offering pirate releases for download.
Pre channels are generally provided as a convenience to members of the scene, often in conjunction with a topsite.
Advantages: Disadvantages: A prebot is commonly known as an automated script in IRC channels that announces new releases and can let users query its database to view past warez release dates and nukes, among other things.