They still do!Yeah. IRC and FTP servers, those were the good ol days. Back when nukes and dupes were serious things and .nfos contained drama.
RNS ftw.
Also the warez scene council is still a thing
They still do!Yeah. IRC and FTP servers, those were the good ol days. Back when nukes and dupes were serious things and .nfos contained drama.
RNS ftw.
I would respect someone if they downloaded a car. Would be pretty fucking cool.Do you respect people who rob 7/11s because they are so passionate about it?
Has anyone ever been involved with the warez scene?
It always seemed like such a cool underground thing. All those groups competing to release the latest movies, games, music, etc. all while avoiding attention from the mainstream & legal venues. There's probably a shit ton of drama and politics involved too
Are there any documentaries, stories, books, etc on this kind of stuff?
The fuck?
I hope there is. I hope one of them decides to write a book about the hard work and dedication of their work in the warez scene. I hope the put their soul into it and secretly hope to make it sell well.
So I can buy it day one and make it freely available online for and see how those fucking asshats like it.
they will never write a book because they only have the creatively to take products they don't own and place them online in a system they didn't create
Technically true. They are separate crimes.
Napster was first for me. I was around 14. Then Kazaa when Napster went legit. It didn't take long for Kazaa to turn to shit; every other file would contain a virus. So Limewire replaced it. Limewire never was quite as good as Kazaa. After that came torrents.
Still torrents today. I don't see anything replacing it, really. It feels like the final form of file sharing.
PC or Amiga side?
I had a friend who coded for the Fairlight demo group, but warez, no not really.
I do remember the C64 and Amiga copy parties though....we have those now too, but it's legal since we buy the cheap ass indie games and it's called a backlog now.
The fuck?
Lol. What?
You're wrong.
No, the name comes from software, the z is just a replacement for s. So it rhymes with shares.
anyone remember Razor 1911?
No, the name comes from software, the z is just a replacement for s. So it rhymes with shares.
I kinda figured what the origin was, but I always gave it a flair in my mind because "warez" sounds less interesting than "Wah-rez".
It's a bit weird when people talk about Limewire because my first file-sharing experiences were torrents. And when I was young, all I really torrented was live concerts. The people who would upload them ran in the same circles as deadheads, who have their own interesting subculture with trading tapes of Grateful Dead shows.
Now if you want to take a deep dive into a weird underground culture, look into deadhead tape swaps.
Yeah. Along with The Humble Guys, INC, and Fairlight. A young and dumb teen in the 80s with BBSes and meetups. Didn't know there was anything bad about it then.
Has anyone ever been involved with the warez scene?
Play me some Red Dragon BBS mud, downloading porn on by 2400 baud US Robotics modem cradle.There was absolutely nothing bad about it then.
It was the implications of what happened when it became mainstream that made it bad.
They found something they're passionate about in this life. Do you know how hard that is? 😔
Also the underground aspect of it. It seems like a secret club and that part of it is cool
Do you also respect pedophiles for finding something they're passionate about while remaining underground/in a secret club?
For whatever reason I came in assuming the OP horribly misspelled Juarez when I saw the title, lolHaha reminds me of a friend who pronounced it "Juarez" and broke my brain.
Used to trade Dead and Phish tapes via Usenet groups.
For the Dreamcast I read in a book.about Segas history, the use of GD ROMs rather than CD ROMs was their piracy protection.Maybe some of the stuff back in the early era was "fascinating". Nowadays my only real point of interest is seeing how tech whizzes somehow manage to crack/emulate some of the seriously expensive and lavish DRM that gets used. It's a pretty fascinating game of cat and mouse not to mention some amount of effort and skill must go into some of it. The notorious Sim City/EA debacle was hilarious.
Or I guess it was "fascinating" how the Dreamcast just didn't seem to give a fuck and just played backups. I didn't own a Dreamcast till like a year ago, but was it ever explained why Sega didn't bother with any sort of protection?
The thrill to be the firstWhy do people do this? What is the incentive to systematically and relentlessly upload every possible piece of media or software to the internet for free?
No you sick fuck
Then I'm not sure why you'd have "major respect" for the thieves for those reasons alone.
Think "show me your wares", but with a z because it was the 90s.Wait... Is it not pronounced like that?
Warez was the fancy term for pirating back in the early days.
NAMBLA is also a secret club.
The KKK is an underground club who's passionate about what they do. Do you respect them?
Do you also respect pedophiles for finding something they're passionate about while remaining underground/in a secret club?
No you sick fuck
Copyright infringement is not theft.