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TV Show About The Scene

Posted by Zonk on from the 0day-warez-only,-please dept.

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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  1. Mirror by Broke+Mirror · · Score: 5, Informative

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

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  2. The WHAT scene? by karmaflux · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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?

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  3. Next on BTTV by wowbagger · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  4. Torrent Links by cswake · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  5. The OC by The+Amazing+Fish+Boy · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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...."

  6. Good thinking! by earthbound+kid · · Score: 5, Funny

    I love the way the mind of the vandal works:

    "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! ... 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!"

  7. THIS IS ADVERTISEMENT FROM SONY!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative
    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.
  8. Re:Oh - THAT scene by bureiku · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Perhaps the demoscene will follow as a spinoff, just like it did before. :)

    I'm not sure if all the people currently active or interested in the demoscene even know of its roots that lie in "THAT scene". After all, demos evolved from the crack intros the crackers inserted into their releases in order to bring fame, recognition and street cred - well, geek cred - to their group. After a while someone just thought of making an intro separate from a released game, and the rest is history.

    I myself have fond memories of being fascinated by cool cracktros on the C64 in the late 80s. And when a classmate showed me a few megademos on the Amiga, I was totally blown away and became permanently addicted. I still am.

    But I digress. It's quite amusing to see many of today's scenes denouncing piracy, as well as others' attempts at reviving the cracktro culture. Like it or not, "warez" are a part of your heritage.

  9. looks like suso won! by simonsayz · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I recived this email today :)
    Hey, I wanted to let you know that another group (unrelated to us) has released a hysterical spoof of "The Scene". We saw it earlier today and were howling laughing. You can download it at www.welcometotehscene.com. (Note "teh" instead of "the"). Our own release of Episode 6 is on schedule for March 25th. We'll update you before it comes out. In the meantime, we'd like to ask your help with something: It's about time our show got some attention on Slashdot! If all of us post to www.slashdot.org over the next few days they'll be hard pressed to ignore us - and this new spoof could be excellent fodder to write about! We'll offer the first person who succeeds in getting a story posted about "The Scene" a spot in an upcoming episode (either as one of our characters or yourself!) Please include the following two links in your post: The Scene parody To post, go to: http://slashdot.org/submit.pl Thanks, all! Talk to you soon. Mitchell