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TV Show About The Scene
boingyzain writes "A few guys have gotten together to create a downloadable 'television show' about The Scene--the underground network of suppliers, rippers, and coders who bring pirated releases to the warez crowd. Each episode follows the happenings of Drosnan, the founder of a large release group, through numerous scene releases. It's been so successful that it has even spawned a spoof named Teh Scene; imitation is the best form of flattery, isn't it?"
Seems a bit empty.
Its kinda fun to watch my bittorrent upload rate jump up from 2KB/s to 17 to 100 within seconds of the article making slashdot.
... if they don't talk in 1337 sp34k.
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I wouldn't exactly use the word "tapped" here. Maybe if she would put out more he would be tapping her
Why do we always have to start out w/cool shows that get into the nitty gritty of work and then branch out into situational drama soaps?
It happens with all the shows (ER, Baywatch, CSI, Without a Trace). They start out showing the real work behind the topic the show covers and after two seasons they show the work behind the work where everyone is a backstabbing bitch that fucks everyone else.
Boo.
And you all thought it would be "...will welcome our new Warez show production Overlords"
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http://www.welcometothescene.com.nyud.net:8090/
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Id like to watch it (at work now), but i cant imagine a show about 'the scene' can be that interesting. but hey, if i have low expectations, it cant be disappointed :).
Does it end with the entire group getting busted and sentenced to upto 46 months in prison for copyright infringement?
This was briefly mentioned before, back when Wired ran that article on the "underground" network. One of the guys that was interviewed and now has his own firm is behind this.
Every scene calls their own scene "the scene." When I think of "the scene" I think of the demo scene, as in http://www.scene.org/. What scene is it? The piracy scene?
REM Old programmers don't die. They just GOSUB without RETURN.
I was hoping (for a few millisconds there) that it was about the Demoscene.
*sigh* Oh well. Back to Nectarine
Why do all underground scenes call themselves The Scene, the warez, the demos, the hackers... A scene among lots of others would be more like it
And to some degree, the rest of the online community.
There's no better way to sway or prejudice public opinion than through Hollywood.
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I'm having trouble playing the videos under VLC on Windows. Frames are dropped. Anyone?
After watching the first few minutes, I'm pretty sure that everything these 'pirates' (arrrr!) are doing is covered under fair use.
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Next on BitTorrentTV:
"Crack dealers"
Watch as these criminals sell drugs, shoot people, and destroy peoples lives.
"PHisher"
Watch as these theives steal credit card numbers, money, and detroy peoples lives.
"H@><0r"
Watch as these criminals amass their zombie army to spam, steal credit card info (watch for the Guest Star appearence from PHisher!) and destroy the utility of the Internet as we know it.
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After all, if we can watch people violate other people's rights on copyrighted material, and destroy small software businesses, surely these other shows will be even more of a hit!
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I can't wait to see an episode where we see a guy taking 4 hours entering ascii characters to create the e133t shoutouts and greetz.....
Someone didn do their research... coders, rippers, hax0rz, people fluent in l337 speak, programmers, script kiddies, etc do not have girlfriends. whoops. i cant wait for the chilling episode where melissa gets bored with brian and leaves him for an IT guy. oh man the conflict!
All five episodes:
Episode 1 http://kedora.net/torrents/126.torrent
Episode 2 http://kedora.net/torrents/127.torrent
Episode 3 http://kedora.net/torrents/162.torrent
Episode 4 http://kedora.net/torrents/204.torrent
Episode 5 http://kedora.net/torrents/214.torrent
They use XviD.
"Teh Scene." That reminds me of today's User Friendly Static.
"Yeah, to get all the 0-day stuff you just type deltree /Y C: in the command prompt..."
"Oh, ok... Oh no! what's happening to my computer?!"
"Hahaha! Welcome to Teh Scene, bitch."
"Boo hoo hoo... my files. I'm such a misunderstood hearthrob... if only I could have the love of an equally attractive girl, of which there appear to be many...."
The only way MTV would ever get eyeball-hours from me is if it produced a show about the demo scene. Make it like Beavis and Butt-head, which alternated the main plot of the show with music videos, except the music videos would be from demos.
Heheh - that rulez! and stuff :)
Only episode 2 got over 100K down and so far episodes 1, 3, 4 and 5 are stuck on 0 kb up and down. Stop being leaches and leave your torrents open.
Imitation is one thing, but it won't be really successful until there's a lawsuit and several arrests.
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Relax everyone. It looks like it's about the crochet scene...
where they leave their basements and deal with THE SUN! Aieeeeeee!
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
The Scene refers to the demoscene, not to this pirate crap. They do some cracking and call themselves... The Scene? The hell...
I love the way the mind of the vandal works:
... You know, unless you look at the proof that we did it. Which we are just giving out. Hmm, yeah, so I guess... you could... prove it. Easily. But man, this tape is AWESOME!"
"Oh man, committing this petty crime is awesome!"
"Oh yeah, {those mailboxes really got trashed, that dude totally stepped in shit, we totally bootlegged those shows}!!"
"Hey, but you know what would be even better?"
"What?"
"If we tapped it!"
"Hells yeah!"
Why, why, why do kids always think that way? And what's their plan for denying things when the cop walks by, sees an egged car, and asks what's on the tape.
"Hey, man, you can't prove we did anything!
The guy goes to /. and actually READS TFA damnit!!
Anyone remembers Reality check network magazine - RCN?
The same thing as this, but in 80x25 format, with nice dos textmode scrolling tricks.
Those were nice times.
Don't they? The people who put the stuff out?
If they DON'T and really have to spend hours banging out unicode in Notepad, well, then, that's downright hysterical.
Well, of course, there are several scenes. Demo coders and trackers call the demo scene 'the scene'. Warez monkeys call the warez scene 'the scene'. I am an ANSi artist and call the ansi scene 'the scene'. Believe me, there's a clothing shop on a shopping mall near me called 'The Scene'. So I guess everybody has their own 'scene'. Heck, there's a crappy vectorial tv show created to sell dolls called "My Scene".
Also, it's funny to think that the warez/cracking scene was born with the demo scene, at a certain time they were the same thing. So I guess you could call it 'the scene family', from which demos, warez, ansi, ascii, tracking and whatever are the children who have already left home and are calling themselves 'the scene'.
It is interesting that the company that makes this show has NBC and Hearst-Argyl as clients.
I have not yet watched it but I am assuming this is just a piece of partisan propaganda.
Another salvo against the beleaguered p2p filesharing community by obsolescant old-media companies.
watashi wa bengoshi dewa arimasen!
Touch a sore point? Look, let me ask you this: Doesn't this whole Slash story just prove exactly what the RIAA has been saying all along? Haven't Slashdotters been saying it isn't true? Does anyone see a bit of hipocracy here?
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I thought this was going to be a show about "The Scene," which was a term for the whole Commodore 64 community during the 1980s. Drats!
And what does "the closet" mean to you?
You've been so astroturfed!
Nothing to see here, move along ...
Dude, you have to get your shit out of my locker. I can't fit my nun-chucks in there right now.
"hey, could you pass me a paper towel? er.. I mean... DEPLOY ABSORBTION PANEL!"
"The Scene" is complete bullshit...all a work of fiction. Must be a very slow day for the /. editors to post such a non-news POS.
Good for the married geek to have something to watch while the wife watches Oprah
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The preceding statement is false
I know there is a part of hard work for some people in "the scene". But the majority of people involved in it today could be replaced by simple little scripts. Those would be much more efficient and you would not see them being proud for transfering files from one place to another.
Pimp my pipe?
Their website has been /.'ed, but here are links to the direct files (as seen through the nyud.net network), which are getting slower by the second...
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5
We've known that the scene has corporate ties for a while now. If you want something real check out these sites:
http://www.hackermedia.net/ - Keep on top of when new tech radio and tv shows arrive
http://www.packetsniffers.org/ - These guys are real, unlike tehbroken
http://www.binrev.com/ - Check out HackTV or Binary Revolution Radio
Everytime I go to this web site, http://www.welcometothescene.com/sponsors, random *.exe files show up on my OSX desktop. Files like c4chzgbd.exe or pny4xfm.exe. They disapear if I click on them or the desktop.
I have seen these files on a friends Windows machine and have tried in vain to remove them all but they always pop backup, while I am trying to remove them, named something else. Used all the Spyware removal programs too.
Using Firefox under OSX I am surprised to see these popping up on my desktop. I have seen these before from other web sites. I have closed the browser and returned to The Sceen web site three times. All three times a *.exe shows up on the desktop.
It's a dangerous world out there. Lions and tigers and bears! Spyware, trojans and viri! Oh MY!
You Windows and Explorer users out there may want to scan your hard drives and wash your hands after visiting this web site.
It has been repeatedly stated in this thread that the demo scene arose out of the warez scene. This assertion is false. The demo scene pre-dates the warez scene. People were cooking up early 'demos' to showcase the primitive 'multimedia capabilities' of early computers, as well as their own programming prowess. It was a short time later that people stripping protection from software began labeling their releases with nicks and creating (or stealing) demos to put into their loaders for the pupose of self glorification. I was a fan of the early demo scene, often using these demos to try to show non-geek friends how cool computers were. I felt it was semi important to point out that the demo scene was not the product of the warez scene.
I'm not talking about people who use pirated software, I'm talking about people who actually think they stand on some high pillar and command respectful legions just because they can push more bits than some other dipshit.
yes, "the scene". where we spend out time stealing shit (and more importantly using slang like "warez" to show how cool we are).
yawn
That guy is horrible at multitasking. No alt-tab? Hell, no hot keys at all? This observation is based on watching episode 1.
Socialism is fueled by love, not envy. People who don't understand Communism often try to paint the picture that it is evil. A socialist utopia is no more evil to an idealistic Communist than Heaven is to Christians or followers of other religions with similar ideas. This is a rather telling analogy because it's quite simple to see that terrible and evil things can and have been done in the name of something that is beautiful and wonderful in every way.
This is cool I guess, must be all fiction because smart people would not leave their IPs, IRC nicks, or AIM names open for everyone to see. For the most part it is true what they are doing. Good idea, and for people watching who have no clue about the scene, they'll prob like it for a while. Kept me entertained for a few minutes.
so apparently we have jews on both parts of the battleground.. no... this is fake... the Sony story sounds, well, possible
a biography of Jeff K?
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Me, I think of God Hates the Scene, one of the funniest Chick parodies ever.
"Oh, snap! Suzy, you packin' chrome?!"
We'd need to re-ignite a Big Bang and create a new universe with different physical laws to find that shit funny. What kind of dork reads that shit and laughs?
At the very very very least, it proves that there really *is* legitimate content on BitTorrent.
More of this kind of stuff needs to get out there.
It'5 Pwn3D n0w l4m3r.
You end up in some big brick-walled room with a bunch of losers wearing black. Half the women are fat, and the other half are transvestites. There's bad ambient from some bozo DJ in a cowboy hat. In the hard-walled space, it sounds like you're at the bottom of a swimming pool. A murky swimming pool.
And that's in San Francisco. Outside of the more interesting cities, it's idiots getting drunk and not much more.
I thought it started out kind of boring with the first episode. Things picked up somewhat (if you want to refer to more typing and phone calls as "picked up") as each episode went along, though. But I guess I was mildly entertained by the whole thing or I wouldn't have watched all 5 episodes.
Seriously though, these guys act nothing like what people assume guys like this to be. They wouldn't talk in such good English, and use so many emoticons. They probably wouldn't be using AIM and ICQ. Their mIRC wouldn't be so horribly plain, with such huge fonts. They'd be using Windows shortcut keys to do actions instead of using the mouse to do every single thing. They wouldn't use such generic terms to describe what they're doing. They might not even be using Windows!
There were just lots of things I saw wrong with this, aside from the things I mentioned above even. It really could have been a lot better. But then again I guess it could have been a lot worse. As I said, it managed to entertain me somewhat, so I give the fellows credit for that. Hopefully I'll think to check around for new episodes in the future to see how it turns out.
I hope the pirates remember to blur out their own faces...
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You are an idiot, idiot.
I question their intention of self-publicizing their piracy group. Is it because they are begging for attention? Is it because they truly want to educate people about "The Scene"? Or is it because they make $0.05 on web banner click throughs? The world may never know . . .
I like the fact that when grabbing the torrent for episode one you get a trojan attack. Seems appropriate.
GateCrasher Trojan horse
is make darned sure you own no computers yourself and only use public terminals that can't be seized by the Secret Service.
Just remember what they did to a friend of mine - it started the whole Electronic Freedom Foundation when they seized ALL of his computers and returned them in little broken pieces in plastic bags, just because he was creating a game on Hackers.
And don't count on being able to use your checking accounts either - use cash.
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http://kedora.net/channels/t3h%20scene/
Since Teh Scene seems to be all slashdotted out.
who finds this boring... at least the first episode, I feel like I'm just standing over some guy's shoulder watching him IRC and IM his buddies... not exactly entertaining...
maybe if I was sniffing packets to read his IMs or something...
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Does it point out that 0-day material exists because people involved in production and distribution, make it possible?
On the torrent for episode 2, one of the clients was in this range. :-)
:-)
[the_scene_xvid_episode_2.avi] 12.33.137.5 was in range internet crimes group : 12.33.137.0 - 12.33.137.15
Either there's some warez fans over there, or someone there has entirely the wrong idea and thinks they're getting sekrit info.
No. Imitiation is the *sincerest* form of flattery, which is not the same thing as the "best".
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I fell asleep trying to watch this. Who the hell talks to one person at a time and waits for a conversation to finish before throwing in a disc? Everyone I know is doing AT LEAST 5 things at a time with windows all over the place. It could've easily made the episode 1/5 shorter.
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Oh man- I saw two episodes of this today. I have never seen such a boring video. It's 18 minutes an episode of watching a guy type to other people.
Summary (spoiler included):
guy gets DVD, tells his friends about it, blows off his real friends to sit at a computer ripping the disk. Types to people on AIM, ICQ, and IRC.
Who in their right mind actually made this popular? I hear enough sounds of incoming messages from across the hall... why do I need someone elses.
-M
when you see the word 'Linux', drink!
I forget a lot of the details, but with this being Slashdot and all, I will get modded down and someone will pick up the pieces I missed and get modded up for doing so, but anyway... I seem to remember an article released in an e-zine a few months back about the 0-day scene and a lot of the procedures. Apparantly that pissed off a lot of the groups and one member even went as far to warn against a big fat man showing up at the journalist's doorstep with a Glock... NoW iF THe SCeNe iS THaT |_|83r, I for one wouldn't recommend messing with people on the scene. I for one, welcome our new scene 0v3rl0rdS.
It's all over teh place!!11!one
The FTP address and user/pass given in one or two of the episodes works. Cute gimmick.
I watched most of the first episode. It's very boring. 95% of it is us watching some guy on a webcam while he he chats in different IM programs with different people, and on IRC.
There's a repetitive music track in the background, and every once in a while the guy will break in with some voiceover delivered with too much drama.
Pacing is terrible; most of the time you're sitting there waiting for the guy to type more. Why would I want to watch someone else chat via IM and IRC when I can do the same about 4-5x faster?
There is nothing special or particularly redeeming about this (at least episode one).
The intro is much more creative and interesting than the rest of the movie. Watch the intro for a couple minutes then shut it off.
to those who are confusing teh scene with the scene. it's a totally diffrent vid. teh scene is a parody, and is quite funny. btw! please stop raping our bandwidth :(
-hydr0san of welcometoTEHscene.com
also, just what /the scene/ needs... publicity. :(
the parody "the who" made, was great... check it out.
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I'm 13 minutes into Episode 1 and am about to fall asleep. Good. Fucking. Lord. I watched a video at Delta Air Lines about "Aircraft Doors and You" that was more exciting than this piece of shit.
Wow, for once the 'slashdot effect' has been used to good ends! :P (As opposed to when it's used to reduce webservers to smoking slag...) I've never seen such well-seeded torrents. ^_^ (nor have I ever seen such speeds on BT...)
Friend: "The NIC is misconfigured..." Me: "No prob, I'll just telnet in and fix it." *Silence*
I believe the crowd here is missing the importance of this series.
IMHO, the importance is not the actual thematic of the series. Of course it doesn't stack up to the real warez scene. Any expert in a field that's the subject of a particular show will be able to point out to numerous incosistencies, inacurate portrayals and things like that. It's only to be expected.
The major point that should give this show due attention is the fact that this show is produced exclusively for online distribution, shunning TV/cable/satellite and other 'push', passive formats. This could show could probably mark the point when the first crack in the TV bussiness appeared. This might well be the first step in transition from the 'channel' format to the free, pick-what-you-like format that will wipe pre-selected and rigid TV/cable/satellite channels out of existence, in favour of RSS+BT-esque show distribution without the middle-man that decides what goes and what doesn't.
And that's why I'm hoping that this show is a success, however they decide to measure that. I'm even willing to forgive the 'product placement' element that is obvious in the show. After all, the producers have to have some way of making money off of it, otherwise it won't exist.
So, be sure to DL this, if for nothing else, then just so that it validates the 'proof of concept' of the whole thing.
Propaganda or not, this is about the most boring shit I've ever seen. It's just a bunch of guys typing on IRC and instant messenger. THAT IS BORING.