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Showing posts with label Scene. Show all posts

Valve’s Steam content distribution platform was initially thought by many as the perfect solution to PC game piracy. However pirates eventually found ways bypass the protection and nowadays it’s not uncommon for Steam released titles to be leaked to the public. This article is about a new scene group called REdownLOADED who specializes in Steam protected titles. As you can see from the name, REdownLOADED seem to be inspired by the veteran scene group RELOADED. In fact, some interesting comments can be found in the NFO file of their first release The.Maw-REdownLOADED

Following are excerpts quoted from the said NFO:

note: This game is retail steam. We downloaded it. We made a winrar sfx installer copied it into a bin/cue and rarred like any iso release just like RELOADED does for all their steam games. If you nuke this homemade release you need to nuke:

  • The.Last.Remnant-RELOADED
  • NBA.2K9-RELOADED
  • Zeno.Clash-CPY
  • Wallace.And.Gromit.Ep.1.Fright.Of.The.Bumblebees-CPY
  • The.Path-CPY
  • Watchmen_The_End_Is_Nigh-Razor1911

and many more! Watch out for more redownloaded releases!

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Greetings to RELOADED for making invalid valid!

Towards the end of the NFO, there is a personal greetings section which names several individuals. This IMHO was a bad idea because I instantly recognized several posters from one of my favorite gaming forums (they had used the same username in the NFO). Although this may not be a big issue, it could draw some unnecessary attention towards the members because REdownLOADED after all is connected to the warez scene. Anyways it’s always good to see a new group on the scene, specially a one that caters for Steam releases – good luck and stay safe!

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Scene release group BIE calls it quits

Posted by TEAM FILEnetworks | 4/26/2009 | , | 6 Comments »

If you’ve ever downloaded a pirated Microsoft Windows release from the internet, you may have heard of the name ‘BIE’. BIE is a veteran release group who focused mainly on cracking Microsoft operating systems such as Windows Vista. In addition to official builds, BIE also released OS versions which had latest hotfixes and new features from Windows Update integrated into them. Anyways bad news for pirates and good news for Microsoft – BIE seems to be quitting the scene, at least for a limited period of time. Quoted below is the SceneNotice titled SINCERELY-BIE they released on the 19th April:

Now its time....BIE quits. Because of the economic crisis we had to release our members. But seriously: Our friends know, that we have got careers, families and even a real-life! We brought you fine releases a long time. But in the past month the gossip went up, the fun went down.

BIE was made just4fun. So for now we will quit to take care of our live and our loves. We will not leave the scene, so perhaps we will start again someday. So please dont take this as an "GoodBye", its just a "StandBy".

Who thinks we have to do some payback for all the gossip, would perhaps be right, but didnt recognize us and our ideology at all. We dont give a fu*k on this kiddy-shit! Fu*k the "Scene", we have got friends!!! We would like to thank our friends, we appreciate! Thank you very much! 

To preventore gossip: No....we dont quit because of Microsofts new WGA. Our friends already got a new crack. If u havent got a new crack, perhaps u are not our friend..... ;o)

cYa
The
BIE-Leader 

(There was also a German version of this message included with the SceneNotice - BIE is a German group).

It would be interesting to see which group will take over Windows releases in the absence of BIE. Earlier on it used to be ETH0 but they too quitted the scene long ago. Anyways folks from Microsoft will be extremely happy with this news – no doubt they still remember the infamous message displayed when a BIE crack is applied to a Windows installation “Please wait while BIE cracks Billy’s ass”.

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Releases groups from the warez scene are hugely popular among online pirates. These groups release high quality warez material at amazing speeds and are responsible for leaking majority of movies, music, games, E-books and other pirated material out there. Due to this very reason, release groups have attained celebrity status and are hero worshipped by even the average torrenters. Here is an article that will be useful for those who collect ‘souvenirs’ related to the warez scene.

scene group logos defacto2

Scene releases are often accompanied by NFOs or cracktros - groups usually make it a point to include their logo in such external files. This article features a massive downloadable collection of scene release group logos released at various points of time. There are over 1500 images included in the pack - most are in full color and some are in B/W.

Note that this Art Pack is brought to you by Defacto2 – a long running scene new portal. Following information is quoted from Defacto2 home page:

Today we have released a new file pack, the Group Logos Pack. This is a collection of over 1,560 scene group logos and art pieces that were once collected by Climbatiz. Climbatiz once ran a web site at http://crackart.95mb.com/ which housed all these pieces but it has long since been abandoned. So the collection has been donated to us for hosting.

The pack is released under a Creative Commons (cc) Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike licence. The artworks within are still copyrighted by their respective artists.

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The logo collection is roughly 57MB in size – the archive is freely downloadable from Defacto 2.

[Click Here] to download scene group logos pack from Defacto2

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This post will hopefully be useful to those who download untouched DVD-R movies, TV shows and documentaries released by groups from the warez scene. As we have mentioned before, all scene releases should conform to a pre specified set of rules if they are not to be nuked (trashed). However you might have already figured out that even sceners do not pre perfect releases - you may have come across DVD-R’s that have out of sync audio, missing menus, missing or out of sync subtitles and various other issues. Did you know that there is a site that indexes all sorts of fixes for such problematic DVDR releases?

DVDRFiXES

DVDRFIXES is a site that offers direct download links to various PROPERs and FiXES for DVD-R’s pred by release groups. Note that this site is not a torrent tracker – it offers direct download links and all files are hosted on the site itself. It should also be noted that DVDRFIXES does not host any movies – only the fixes can be downloaded. Speaking of these so called 'fixes', there are many types of them out there - Syncfix, Subfix, PROPER, PPFFix, Fix, MiscFix. MenuFix, Audiofix, Navfix, Patch, Labelfix, and a whole lot of others. The names may look weird to the average user but these are scene terminology derived as per scene naming rules.

DVDRFixes screen

So far I’ve downloaded quite a few files from this site and haven’t found any nasties (trojans, malware, etc) in any of them. As for instructions on how to use these fixes, they can usually be found in the accompanying NFO file.

Site Name: DVDRFIXES (http://www.dvdrfixes.com)

Registration is not required.

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The Game Scene Charts – Issue 29 (January 2009)

Posted by TEAM FILEnetworks | 3/13/2009 | | 1 Comments »

A new Game Scene Charts issue has been released. Game Scene Charts is a coded magazine that evaluates and ranks the performance of game release groups from the warez scene (a detailed description on TGSC including an outline of magazine format can be found in our article about the previous issue). TGSC Issue 29 summarizes the performance of scene groups in the month of January 2009.

According to the editor the number of points allocated for releasing an unprotected PC game has been lowered from 5.5 to 3.0 from this issue onwards. IMHO this should bring more balance to the overall results.

As for the results, group SKIDROW leads the January 2009 rankings with 61 points while Razor1911 wins the second place with 50.3 points. 3rd place goes to POSTMORTEM who’s collected 32 points this month. All time rankings are still lead by RELOADED whose got a massive score of 1975.

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TGSC is a coded magazine – everything you need to run it is self contained in the application. Just download and run the exe file.

[Click Here] to download Game Scene Charts Issue 29 from MegaShare

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As we’ve highlighted in several previous articles, release groups from the warez scene use high speed FTP servers known as topsites to store movies, music, software, games and all sorts of other pirated material in digital form. These topsites are scattered across the world and operate in utmost secrecy in fear of legal action by authorities. ‘Sunnydale’ was one such topsite which was based in Sweden. Despite all attempts by the scene to conceal its existence, Swedish authorities have raided the servers and made one arrest.

Sunnydale was a ring of around 10 FTP servers – one of these was busted by the police and the rest were take down by the OP to prevent further compromise. What’s worrying about this development is that it’s not everyday topsites get busted. We frequently hear about P2L (Pay-To-Leech) sites such as TV-Land and BitTorrent trackers get shut down but topsites are generally considered to be safe from prying eyes. Anyway Sunnydale was just one of the many topsites in existence - it getting busted is unlikely to have a lasting impact on the scene, although the site’s affiliated release groups may be affected in the short term.

Some history – Is Sunnydale the first topsite to get raided?

The simple answer is no. Comparing to what the scene went through during Operation Fastlink (2004), Operation Site Down (2005) and Operation Buccaneer (2001), Sunnydale bust seems like nothing. These were major international anti piracy operations launched simultaneously across multiple countries by law enforcement agencies such as the FBI. A large number of scene members were arrested and several topsites were taken down, all at the same time. The following NFO released by Fairlight (FLT) few days after Operation Fast Link hit them sums up the grim picture that surrounded the scene back in those days (note the text in bold):

Legends never die!

You all read the news - Operation Fastlink struck hard to the heart of the scene and hit the FairLight ISO section, but mind that the demo activities on the PC and C64 are still naturally untouched, as there is nothing to complain about from a legal point of view on what they are doing.

So, let me underline it for you again: FairLight's ISO section is lethally wounded, but the group as such is still alive and kicking! FairLight is built stronger to last longer. FairLight is bigger than one and even all of the sections. FairLight is and you can rely on the fact that FairLight will continue to be!

Respects to the Fastlink people for finding the core of the scene, which is not an easy thing to do. They are doing their job and we're not whining! In war, people take bullets - we are aware of this! If you can't stand the sight of body bags, then stand back and let the real men do the work for you.

We attack, adapt, improvise and survive! We are FairLight and will continue to be FairLight. FairLight IS the delight of ETERNAL might!

And it was not only FLT who suffered – members from many other well known groups such as DEViANCE, CLASS, Razor1911, DoD, PWZ were arrested. In addition to the arrests, operation site down busted around 11 topsites including RM1, RM2 (operated by group RiSCiSO), SC, VS, TNA, BB. TEN, TWH, LW, etc. Although these operations brought the scene to a standstill for a few days (there were very few or no scene release for several days following the raids), it wasn’t the end. Some of the groups who were raided back then (FLT and RZR included) are still in operation and several new groups have been formed as well. The scene did not die as expected and instead, it’s very much alive several years later even in 2009.

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Scene XviD Release Standards 2009 (TXD2K9)

Posted by TEAM FILEnetworks | 3/02/2009 | | 5 Comments »

Release groups from the warez scene are right on top of the piracy pyramid – there is no doubt about that. But ‘the scene’ is not a bunch of geeks releasing leaked material randomly. Scene groups are very well organized and they have their own standards and rules. This is one of the reasons why scene releases are of great quality (identical to the original in most cases), even though they are pirated material. For those interested, here are the new scene standards for releasing XViD encoded videos (movies, TV shows, etc).

At a glance, The XviD Releasing Standards 2009 (TXD2K9) does not seem to introduce drastic changes over the previously declared rule set regarding XViD format. Even the min/max file size for movie releases (700MB/1.4GB) remain the same. Most of the rules mentioned here won’t mean anything to the average torrenter (they are meant to be read by sceners in the first place). But these regulations do improve the overall quality of a release – for example an XViD encode that follows proper scene standards will play on any XViD compatible device (and not just on selected players as in the case with most homemade rips).

The XviD Releasing Standards 2009 (TXD2K9) is signed by the following release groups:

ALLiANCE DMT DoNE NeDiVX ViTE iMBT COCAIN PUKKA Larceny AMIABLE HLS LMG ARROW COALiTiON SAPHiRE MOTION BeStDivX NEPTUNE iNTiMiD HEFTY BaLD mVs OPTiC VoMiT ESPiSE TWiST EPiSODE FRAGMENT ARiSCO FFNDVD SAiNTS TVA iNFiNiTE FoV ORPHEUS TOPAZ REWARD WAT NODLABS PHASE HAGGiS aAF OSiTV RiVER REMAX MACRO FQM SFM WPi DOMiNO DvF 5MeOAMT ELiA ARTHOUSE BETAMAX EPiC iLS BrG DnB REACTOR DOCUMENT AEN FiCO BLooDWeiSeR TNAN CoWRY iGNiTE SSF D3Si ARiGOLD AsiSter FLAiR WRD AFO SSB TheWretched LAJ KiNOBOX WiRA BiEN GAYGAY RUBYMESS AEROHOLiCS VH-PROD iMMORTALs JFKXViD iFN MoH XanaX WaLMaRT

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By now you probably know that majority of the pirated material (movies, music, games, e-books and everything else) in the world originate from ‘the scene’. ‘The Scene’ comprises of many release groups (RELOADED, PUKKA, DiAMOND, RAZOR1911, etc) whose members are scattered across the globe. Since ‘The Scene’ is an underground community, scene groups do not normally use conventional means to communicate with each other. This is where ‘Scene Notices’ come in.

scenenotice

‘Scene notices’ are public (public to scene members that is) messages similar to .NFOs that scene members use to brag, flame, regroup, coordinate activities and make announcements regarding the warez scene. These are usually posted on scene topsites, sometimes as directories. Memorable (and quite hilarious) Scene Notices I’ve read in the recent past include the one that started all the rumors about ‘PEG Tracker"’ as well as another that exposed the staff at ScT. Another Scene Notice that’s quite unforgettable is

FBI_BUSTS_MANY_ARRESTED_TIME_TO_GO_HIDE-IND

which was posted when Operation Site Down hit the core of the scene back in 2005. Nowadays an increasing number of SceneNotices are targeted at exposing members who leak scene releases to private torrent trackers (remember- sceners hate p2p). 

As you can see it’s all very interesting. But how can you read these if you are not a scene member? This is where SceneNotice.org comes in. It’s a public site that indexes and archives selected SceneNotices posted on topsites, IRCs, etc.

scene notices 

The site currently has an archive of over 600 SceneNotices. A search feature as well as an RSS feed is also present. When viewing posts at SceneNotice.org, you may need to zoom in using your browser as the default font used is a little too small. Note that this site does not index each and every Scene Notice – only a selected few are posted. It’s still is a good read and if you are interested go and have a look.

Site Name: SceneNotice (http://scenenotice.org)

Registration URL: http://scenenotice.org/register.php (Registration is optional – even unregistered users are able to read posts.)

P.S. – PEG Tracker is FAKE. Don’t waste your time chasing it lol.

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If you are a reader of our PC Games section, it should be no secret to you that most PC Titles are cracked and leaked by groups from the warez scene such as RELOADED, HATRE, RAZOR1911, etc. ‘The Game Scene Charts’ is a monthly coded magazine (a small standalone program that integrates magazine content, background music and a user interface) which ranks groups in the gaming scene. This post features December 2008 issue of TGSC.

game scene charts mag December 2008

A typical TGSC issue comprises of the following articles:

  • Editorial – Comments from the editors on this month’s issue
  • Monthly Chart – Group statistics and rankings based on the number of PC Game ISO/DOX releases for that particular month (in this case December 2008)
  • Monthly Overview – Editorial with news, updates and other information surrounding the PC game scene for that particular month
  • Group of the month – A list of best ranked scene groups, sorted by month
  • Group release stats – Comments about specific groups and their releases for a particular month
  • Yearly stats – Group rankings and points earned for the current year
  • Yearly overview – Comments by editors on how this months group performance has affected yearly performance
  • Group of the year – A list of best ranked scene groups, sorted by year
  • All time stats – All time group release statistics 
  • All time overview – Comments on how this month’s performance has affected a group’s overall ranking

According to TGSC issue 28 (released on 27 January, 2009), the best ranked scene group for December 2008 is FASiSO. In addition, popular group RELOADED is still ranked first in all time group statistics with a whopping 1951 points. Note that these rankings are purely based on the number of releases by a group – type of DRM/protection cracked is not taken into account.

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You can download the coded magazine to your computer and read it yourself (only 500kb in file size). As this is a coded mag, no additional software is required to view it.

[Click Here] to download Game Scene Charts Issue #28 (December 2008) from MegaShare. If the download link is not visible, refresh the MegaShare page. (Suspicious about this file? See Virustotal report for ‘the.game.scene.charts.issue.28.exe’)

Press ‘Esc’ key to skip the intro screen. Press ‘Esc’ again to quit the program.

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Usually we don’t feature individual music album downloads here on FILEnetworks Blog but this is no ordinary music album. ‘The Mighty Pirate Sessions - Volume 1’ includes several chipmusic tracks that were created entirely using the sound chip of an older ATARI game console. What’s even more interesting is that these tracks were used by various scene groups (including the infamous Razor1911) in their cracktros (crack intros), keygens, etc back in the mid 1990’s.

the mighty pirate sessions

The Mighty Pirate Sessions Vol. 1 is composed by Dubmood, a cross genre Swedish chipmusician. Over the years Dubmood has been working with many scene groups, specially with Razor1911 which is one of the oldest groups in the warez scene (he even has a page in Razor1911 demo division domain). More information about Dubmood and his other music albums can be found on this Last.Fm page.

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The Mighty Pirate Sessions Volume 1 can be freely downloaded via BitTorrent.

[Click Here] to download Mighty Pirate Sessions Volume 1 torrent from Mininova

[Click Here] for more BitTorrent music album releases by Dubmood

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‘TV Land’ (TVL) shut down

Posted by TEAM FILEnetworks | 11/29/2008 | , | 0 Comments »

On of the largest paytoleech (P2L) sites in existence, TV-Land (TVL), was shut down by Dutch anti piracy group BREIN only two days ago. It’s not operation site down all over again or anything like that but this will still be a blow to at least a few BitTorrent trackers who depended on TV Land for their releases. Pay to Leech (P2L) sites are where you can get access to scene released 0-Day (zero day) for a fee. 

Interestingly, TV-Land was shut down after a scene notice exposed the affiliation between P2P sites and TV-Land. One of the BitTorrent trackers hit hard by the shutdown is SceneTorrents (SCT). ScT is usually one of the first trackers to track scene releases but their pre times suffered greatly during the time TVL was down. BREIN’s press release (you might want to translate it) claims TV Land is the largest topsite ever to be busted - of this I am not so sure. It does not look like any arrests were made but all 3 servers of the site (which were hosted on Leaseweb btw) have reportedly been seized.

This whole incident most likely will not affect ScT in the long run; TV Land was not the only PayToLeech site there existed. New sites go online, some sites get shut down; it’s a vicious cycle.

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What are the best scene releases indexing sites?

Posted by TEAM FILEnetworks | 6/07/2008 | , | 272 Comments »

As you may already know, most of the pirated content on the Internet originate from the scene. When a scene group releases something (let it be a movie, game or an app) the release is usually announced to other members of the scene through IRC announce bots (Pre channels). It is a well known fact that it is not easy to have access to a pre channel. So how do we know which stuff is released by the scene?

software_pirate

Luckily, there are publicly accessible HTTP sites that index latest scene releases, Nuke information as well as .NFOs. We have presented several such sites we have used below. If you know others, fell free drop in a comment.

Dupecheck Project - Probably the best and the most frequently updated. Obtains info from multiple pre bots. Does not have .NFO information.

NFOhump - Another decent indexer. Updates sometimes slow. Clean interface. This was formerly known as Nforce.

VCD Quality - Exclusive movie release index site. Includes sample screens, .NFO and IMDB links for almost every release.

xREL - Contains .NFOs and has a ratings system. Frequent updates.

ORLY PreDB - Another excellent scene release index site. Currently down due to a DDOS attack.

PAJRAT - Update speeds somewhat similar to that of NFOrce. Automatically generates links to search for the release on popular bittorrent sites and other potential download locations.

NfoDB - Another indexing site. Update intervals are long.

Logic-Sunrise - Console and PC game releases indexing site.

As you may notice, these sites do not carry a download link to indexed scene releases. But once you know that the release is out there, just search for it on your favorite bit torrent tracker (or E2DK server, FTP site, Newsgroup or whatever) :p

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Anyone want to read Scene Notices?

Posted by TEAM FILEnetworks | 4/24/2008 | | 0 Comments »

By now most of you should know that most of the pirated stuff (movies, music, apps, etc) comes from 'The Scene".Only a few get to be part of a scene group but once you get in, you'll know that it's a totally different world than you imagined it to be.

Scene notices are public (public to scene members that is) messages similar to .NFOs that scene members use to brag, flame, regroup, coordinate activities and make announcements. Most of the time, these are fun to read (and they do sometimes contain really hateful stuff towards P2P sites and users).

But how can you read them if you do not have access to a scene topsite or an IRC? There are of course pre channels and pre databases which you could easily monitor but you would have to dedicate your life for this task if you want to distinguish release announcements from notices. This is where SceneNotice.com comes in.

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SceneNotice.com filters and posts notices from release announcements so that there is no need for you to go through huge lists to find one. The site also has categorized search.

Give it a try: Visit SceneNotice now.

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Mysterious world of "The Scene"

Posted by TEAM FILEnetworks | 8/11/2007 | | 14 Comments »

We hope that this article will provide answers to one of the most commonly asked questions through our e-mail; "Where do pirated stuff come from?" But be warned- this will be a long post.

Movies, games appz, e-books and music that can be found on the internet are not uploaded by the publishers themselves so you lazy asses can download them with a click; no it aint that easy. Most of the pirated stuff that circulates the web comes from "The Scene".

What is it?

The scene (also known as the warez scene) is a clandestine worldwide network where people trade pirated goods, like dvds, movies, games, applications etc. Warez refers primarily to copyrighted material traded in violation of its copyright license. It does not refer to commercial for-profit software counterfeiting.

Releases and Releasegroups

First, warez is released by releasegroups, groups which are specialized in publishing warez. They copy a dvd or break the security of a game, and will make it available for other people, as a so-called release. When these releasegroups finish a release it will be uploaded to topsites. These sites are very fast private ftp-servers, and the first stadium in the distribution of a release (getting access to one of the topsites is not easy if you are not a cracker yourself). The speed of this worldwide network is enormous. Within minutes a release can be copied to hundreds of other sites. Within an hour, it's available on thousands of sites and fxp boards. Within a day or two it's available on newsgroups, irc and in the end, on p2p-software.

Subsections

There are release groups that specialize themselves in certain categories within the scene.

Crackers (Reverse Engineers)

The part of The Scene community that specializes in the creation of software known as cracks and keygens.

Notable appz release groups:

CORE (Challenge of Reverse Engineering), PC (Phrozen Crew), uCF (uNITED cRACKING fORCE), ViRiLiTY, AGAiN, AG (Another Group), DVT, TNT (The Nova Team), ECHOS, iMMERSiON, iSO, H2O, LND (Legends Never Die), PANTHEON, Rise, RBS (Rebels), TBE (The Bitter End), TDA (The Devine Alcoholics), W3D (Warez3D), XiSO, ZWTiSO (Zero Waiting Time ISO)

Games/Console games

The part of The Scene community that specializes in releasing PC and Console games.

Notable Gamez release groups:

ADDiCTiON, CLASS, CLONECD, DEViANCE, PROViSiON, FASiSO, FLT (FAiRLiGHT), HOODLUM, MiRROR, MYTH, Razor1911, RELOADED, VENGEANCE

MP3Scene

The part of The Scene community that specializes in releasing pirated music in MP3 format

Notable Mp3 release groups:

1KING, aPC (aPOCALYPSE pRODUCTION cREW), BPM (Beats Per Minute), DDS, DJ (DeeJay), DOH, FMC (Fresh Music Cartel), SQ (Swiss Quality), 4CHOON, HSALiVE, MOD (Musical Over Dose), MUSiQ

Movie

The part of The Scene community that specializes in releasing pirated movies/movies rips.

Notable Movie release groups:

ALLiANCE, Centropy, FLAiR, PoT (Pirates of the Theatre), VALiOMEDiA, VideoCD, SCREAM (Sexy Cool Rightful Evil Angry Mobsters), WastedTime, MEDiAMANiACS, LiNE, DONE, DiAMOND, PROMiSE, VOMiT, FiCO, iNCiTE, CFE, CHAKRA, HAFVCD, ViTE, PUKKA, mVs (maVenSupplier), pFa, qNs, BestDiVX, FLAiTE, UNiVERSAL

TvRip

The part of The Scene community that specializes in releasing rips of television shows.

Notable TV release groups:

ANiVCD, BAMHD (Bad Ass Mutha Hi Def), FoV (Future of Vision), LoKI, LOL, MiNT, MiRAGETV, ORENJi, SFM (Sci-Fi Maniacs), TCM, XOR

Artscene

The part of The Scene community that specializes in the creation of digital graphical art in text format.

Demoscene

The part of The Scene community that specializes in the creation of so-called Demos. These are computer programs which bundle together sophisticated code which produces esthetic art in the form of animated graphics with music.

EbookScene

The part of The Scene community that specializes in releasing pirated e-books

Warezscene

The part of The Scene community that specializes in the underground distribution of warez software.

Notable distribution groups:

AOD (Angels on Drugs), RTS (Request To Send), Motiv8, RiSC (Rise in Superior Couriering), SWAT (Special Warez Acquisition Team), UPS (United Piracy Service), STE (Super Trade Encounters)

General Scene guidelines

  • Open - Anyone with enough technical or artistic skill can be a member of The Scene
  • Free - All content offered on the Scene must be free of charge and non-profit and art is generally reusable with permission
  • Groups - Individuals who make up the Scene may be members of one or many groups the point of which being that the promotion of work is unified; work published under one group name typically cannot be resubmitted under another
  • No Ripping! - It is unacceptable for a group or individual to take another group or individual's work and republish it as its own without explicit permission being given! Rippers are usually banned on sight.
  • Credit - Any sort of recode, rework, edit, manipulation or remix must also credit the author of the original, permission from the original author to publish the remix is also a good thing to get somewhere along the line
  • Respect - Skill is the only thing by which people are measured on the Scene; if you are sufficiently skilled you can get into any group you wish
  • Competition - Groups that form The Scene compete amongst each other, each wanting to prove they are better coders / artists than the other.

Well that should have given you a basic idea on what the scene is and obviously answered the question "Where do pirated stuff come from?" There may be points we missed and groups we failed to mention so if you found any flaws plz mail to filenetworks@gmail.com or post as comments.

Stay with FILEnetworks for the latest information on Scene and Non Scene releases!

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