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List of warez groups. Warez groups are teams of individuals who have participated in the organized unauthorized publication of films, music, or other media, as well as those who can reverse engineer and crack the digital rights management (DRM) measures applied to commercial software. This is a list of groups, both web -based and warez scene ...
Software cracking. Software cracking (known as "breaking" mostly in the 1980s [1]) is an act of removing copy protection from a software. [2] Copy protection can be removed by applying a specific crack. A crack can mean any tool that enables breaking software protection, a stolen product key, or guessed password.
Demonstration in support of " fildelning " (file sharing, including of warez), in Sweden in 2006. Warez is a common computing and broader cultural term referring to pirated software (i.e. illegally copied, often after deactivation of anti-piracy measures) that is distributed via the Internet.
PARADOX (PDX) is a warez – demogroup; an anonymous group of software engineers that devise ways to defeat software and video game licensing protections, a process known as cracking, which is illegal in most jurisdictions. They distribute cracks (software patches), keygens (key generators), and pre-cracked versions of entire programs.
Warez hierarchy. The Warez scene, often referred to as The Scene, [1] is an underground network of piracy groups specialized in obtaining and illegally releasing digital media before their official release date. [2] The Scene distributes all forms of digital media, including computer games, movies, TV shows, music, and pornography. [3]
Ophcrack. Ophcrack is a free open-source (GPL licensed) program that cracks Windows log-in passwords by using LM hashes through rainbow tables. The program includes the ability to import the hashes from a variety of formats, including dumping directly from the SAM files of Windows, and can be run via the command line or using the program’s ...
Empress (sometimes stylized EMPRESS) is a video game cracker who specializes in breaking anti-piracy software. While the true identity of Empress is unknown, she refers to herself as a young Russian woman. [1][2] Empress has also released cracked games under the moniker C000005. [3] Empress is known as one of the few crackers who can crack Denuvo.
Sector9. Website. razor1911.com. Razor 1911 (RZR) is a warez and demogroup founded in Norway, 1985. It was the first ever such group to be initially founded exclusively as a demogroup, before moving into warez in 1987. [1] According to the US Justice Department, Razor 1911 is the oldest software cracking group that is still active on the ...