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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?"
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"
"I may be full of crap about this game, and I may be wrong, and that's fine." -Jack Thompson
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
And to some degree, the rest of the online community.
There's no better way to sway or prejudice public opinion than through Hollywood.
GJC
Gregory Casamento
## Chief Maintainer for GNUstep
After watching the first few minutes, I'm pretty sure that everything these 'pirates' (arrrr!) are doing is covered under fair use.
Socialism: A feeling of discontent and resentment caused by a desire for the possessions or qualities of another.
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!
www.eFax.com are spammers
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.
"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 :)
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?
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!
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!
Pimp my pipe?
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.
I'm a signature virus. Please copy me to your signature so I can replicate.
http://kedora.net/channels/t3h%20scene/
Since Teh Scene seems to be all slashdotted out.