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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 ]
Leaks of releases from warez groups operating within the "scene" still constitute a large amount of warez shared globally. Between 2003 and 2009 there were 3,164 active groups within the warez scene, with the majority of these groups being active for no more than two months and with only a small fraction being active for many years. [1]
Each release that gets released will result as a record in a pre-database or dupe check. [23] [7] This record will at least contain the time the release was released and the release name (the name of the folder that contains the files of the release). [24] The size and nature of the release are often provided too. [25]
An early scene release came in 2004 when the group ARA released Metallica's fifth performance in Gothenburg as FLAC files. [77] [78] These lossless files can be bought on LiveMetallica.com, a service that allows fans to buy and download files of soundboard recordings. [79]
In October 1999, DeCSS was released. This program enables anyone to remove the CSS encryption on a DVD. Although its authors only intended the software to be used for playback purposes, [2] it also meant that one could decode the content perfectly for ripping; combined with the DivX 3.11 Alpha codec released shortly after, the new codec increased video quality from near VHS to almost DVD ...
Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke released another statement-making solo album on Friday under the freedom of BitTorrent, a file-sharing website. The album, "Tomorrow's Modern Boxes", contains eight ...
Scene nukes are nukes which are echoed out to pre channels. Scene nukes usually occur when a release violates scene rules, such as wrong encoder, or when the release is outright bad, such as out of sync. The nuke multiplier for scene nuke on topsites is usually 1x; all the couriers lose all credits gained uploading the release and break even ...
Empress is known around the P2P scene for the "personal note" section in the NFOs of her releases, often containing a variety of slurs and other offensive language in relation to her sociopolitical views.