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?"

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Mirror

[Broke Mirror]

http://www.welcometothescene.com.nyud.net:8090/

Torrent Links

[cswake]

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.

Re:The WHAT scene?

[zokum]

Hehe, those are more or less the same. You'll find a lot of the demoscene people also do warez. A lot of groups in the demo scene also do warez and vice verca. As an example, take a look at the credits list in Fairlight's TG03 demo Tatsu. (Great party btw). They credit Myth, Deviance, Razor1911 and many others. It is a known fact that the demoscene came from the warez scene due to cracktros. Some of the site/box/shell/crax0rlamers also have ties into the 0day part of the scene. Those kinds of malicious crackers are shunned by sceners, being a huge security risk. Guy gets busted, feds find his pftp-nonwoof, cracks bookmarks, voila, loads of sites to bust. I know some people who do dabble in "the scene" and according to them, that "the scene"-series is fucking ridiculous.

Re:The WHAT scene?

[Anonymous Coward]

For anyone who is interested, this is a pretty cool DVD. It has a short segment on the demo scene.

THIS IS ADVERTISEMENT FROM SONY!!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Just to let you guys know this is not exactly an accurate portrayal of people in the scene. This is complete bullsh*t. Here is just some of the info that was released in the scene.

The.Scene.Episode.1.TV.XviD-SCENE was released December 2, 2004 This video was created by Sony (www.sony.com) towards the end of the Video there is a name that appears Rebecca Brandt if you google Rebecca Brandt you get http://www.sonyplaza.com/ny/reporters_5.html apperently she is some sort of reporter for Sony if you continue to look at the page you can see who else she works with Seth Hochman http://www.sonyplaza.com/ny/reporters_4.html Look at his picture. Its the guy from the video with a haircut. Same huge nose and loser look. if you watch the video closely you can see that when Seth Hochman uses his browser to go to slashdot.org there is a in the list the comes up that stands out. www.sony.com if you take a look at the bio on Seth Hochman you will see that is states: He is also an avid snowboarder during the winter months and enjoys listening to different types of music including hard rock, jazz, and reggae. www.freebord.com is also advertised on the video Alot of people are saying this video is gay and all sorts of other stupid shit. This just proves your ignorance if you do not see a major problem with this. You may think you are big shit in the scene but if you did not see a problem with this video your are nothing but a noob. All you kiddies must have not been here when real people got arrested and real people went to jail. The people in this video may be fake and its fun to laugh at and say... oh this is gay, but if Sony, a company with a major interest in stopping the scene can walk in a pre something who knows who else can. I see NFO's all the time about scene security and people just shrug them off and say they are gay. The only thing that will be gay is you when your cell mate is butt fucking you against the stainless steel toilet in your cell. If this is not a MAJOR red flag to everyone that the scene is WAY to open then i feel sorry for you people when the next flag pops up. Cause it will be the sirens reflecting off your walls -say this is gay, call me a fag. I don't give a fuck, Sony was nice enough to give us a major wakeup call of how easy it is to walk into the scene. The question is, are we smart enough to realize it

So like I said, it's just complete bullsh*t scare tactic. But the scary part is they are able to infiltrate the scene and pre something.

Re:THIS IS ADVERTISEMENT FROM SONY!!!!

[Bill Wong]

Just to add more info to this... If we do a whois on welcometothescene.com, we find that it was registered by the Jun Group. Doing a simple google search turns up http://www.dcia.info/News/newsletter_2004-12-06.ht m. A DCIA Member made industry history last week by premiering the first-of-its-kind original peer-to-peer (P2P) video program series entitled "The Scene." While other major entertainment industry representatives continued various actions around the world intended to curtail online file sharing, Jun Group took an enormous step forward in the commercial development of this exciting distribution channel. Like theatrical motion pictures, broadcast television shows, and most recently cable programming, mass media outlets for video content have been able to mark the beginnings of their coming of age with the debuts of their first original made-for-the-medium content. According to Jun Group president and show co-creator Mitchell Reichgut, "Most content that's available online was originally created for another medium. We created 'The Scene' specifically for file sharers. It's meant to be viewed on the computer." On November 30th, Jun Group launched this first-ever TV-style series specifically for the global file-sharing community. "The Scene's" protagonist, Brian Sandro, is a fictional young NYU student who also happens to be one of the world's most avid file-swappers. Sandro's desktop is at the heart of his social life, and viewers get to experience the online "Scene" just as he does - via Web cams, secret chat rooms, private websites, instant messages, and e-mails. "The Scene" is financed entirely by sponsorships, which themselves exemplify the cutting-edge of creativity. Sandro visits the official website for the extreme sports equipment company that is one of its charter advertisers. He also listens to music on his computer and checks out the bands' websites - as college students typically do. What makes the show most unique is the fact that it is being distributed solely through the P2P community. "File sharers have made it very clear that this is their preferred method of consuming content," Mitchell said. "We are the first ones who have found a way to truly meet that demand." He added that the file-sharing audience is a highly desirable demographic of affluent and largely male young adults. Businesses pay for placement based on the number of people who are inspired by the show to visit a sponsor, which is both quantifiable and verifiable. "Our sponsors will only be paying for the people who download the show or the people we drive to their websites," he noted. "They won't have to rely on outdated ratings systems." There's no reason to copy-protect the shows, Mitchell said, because the whole idea is for people to copy and share them so that advertisers reach the highest possible number of consumers. Executives at show sponsor Freebord phoned Jun Group two hours after the premiere to report that their website was "being swamped with traffic." Similarly, the website (http://welcometothescene.com/) that Jun Group created to promote the show temporarily went down due to the overwhelming amount of traffic it was receiving. It's clear that hundreds of thousands of people downloaded the show in first few hours after its release. "The Scene" is now out on P2P, and on IRC, Usenet, and public FTPs - with no strings attached. "The Scene" represents Jun Group's latest foray into file sharing. In 2003, the company released five files from Kevin Martin and the Hiwatts, a band featuring the former lead singer of Candlebox, on behalf of YooHoo Chocolate Drink. The music was downloaded more than two million times over a four-week period, and helped YooHoo achieve the largest spike in website traffic since the inception of its site. Its more recent partnership with rock legend Steve Winwood and the television show Access Hollywood drove over 3 million downloads and well over 200,000 vis

Re:The WHAT scene?

[zokum]

Ok, I can elaborate a little bit more. I may have a bit more insider info than most.

Cracktro: Small yet impressive extra introduction in games/installers made by the crackers to show their skills.

site/box/shell/crax0rlamers: crackers who crack games are ok in the scene, those who crack sites and similar are not accepted. Both are crackers, but different types.

0day: Small software releases ripped to be as small as possible. Mostly utils and games, but also porn, ebooks, pda and many other things. Basically, all that isn't pure media files or a form of iso.

pftp: Well know shelltrade/fxp tool used by a lot of people in the scene. Highly efficient at moving files to/from sites. The encryption used in the original release is quite trivial and easy to crack. The woof-patch, although not very well distributed adds blowfish and SHA256 crypto to make up for this.

It's not really my problem that your knowledge of the topic isn't that strong. I would never post like you did in a thread about nucelar physics. :-)

Links

[Anonymous Coward]

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

The scene is propaganda - Sony style

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Spyware? Trojans?

[poppageek]

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.

Re:Spyware? Trojans?

[argent]

This seems to be a temporary file created by Firefox to hold a downloaded file that it hasn't yet decided what to do with. I see these all the time, with a variety of extensions, even on websites that I've created myself.

demo scene and warez scene

[smakx]

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.

Re:The WHAT scene?

[snuf23]

0 day releases at least used to refer to bootlegs released that day. So for example on old BBS systems they might have a 0 day file section where you would find newly pirated files.

Torrent link for TEH Scene...

[boingyzain]

http://kedora.net/channels/t3h%20scene/

Since Teh Scene seems to be all slashdotted out.