I love how insane they must be to think this would put someone off downloading something.
I highly doubt anyone would say no to freely downloading a car. They're so damned expensive.
Not a documentary, but The New Yorker had a really great article (The Man Who Broke the Music Industry) about Dell Glover of the music piracy group RNS.
He worked at a music CD manufacturing factory, leaked stuff by hiding CDs behind an oversized belt buckle.
The amount of scene rules for basically everything (audio, video, games, books, etc.) is amusing...
https://scenerules.org
Copyright infringement is not theft.
Spend your valuable time creating something and have it taken without payment. See how you feel.
Not a documentary, but The New Yorker had a really great article (The Man Who Broke the Music Industry) about Dell Glover of the music piracy group RNS.
He worked at a music CD manufacturing factory, leaked stuff by hiding CDs behind an oversized belt buckle.
I love how insane they must be to think this would put someone off downloading something.
I highly doubt anyone would say no to freely downloading a car. They're so damned expensive.
You can. It would probably be more expensive than a real car.If I could 3D print a car, I would.
Yes let me confess to cyber crime on NeoGAF.
I don't like reminding people of their old thread, but I don't think you're the right person to take the moral high ground here.... i mean giving your money to the north korean regime is way worse than pirating IMO...Has anyone ever been involved with the shoplifting scene?
It always seemed like such a cool underground thing. All those groups competing to walk out of shops unnoticed with fashion brand clothes, cosmetics, jewellery, etc. all while avoiding attention from the mainstream & legal venues. There's probably a shit ton of drama and politics involved too
Major respect for these guys and gals. The shoplifting scene appears to be one of the very few subcultures that has been kept hidden underground for the most past, especially in this day and age.
Are there any documentaries, stories, books, etc on this kind of stuff?
I didn't judge you for it at the time, but then you post this here, way to go! What a shitty comparison
Spend your valuable time creating something and have it taken without payment. See how you feel.
I feel great, thank you.
No one wants anything you have created... so your response makes sense.
Man, that first page is weird. Since when is copyright infringement is the same as being a violent racist or petty theft? They are doing the wrong things but they are incredibly talented at what they do. I also think the camadrie the various groups have are neat too. I don't see anything wrong in admiring what they are good at if you know that what they are doing is wrong and you should never perpetrate like that yourself.
Sometimes you gotta respect the hustle.
Man, some of you are so dang straight edge that it's embarrassing. I spoof amiibos on the reg using nfc tags. Does this somehow make me an international criminal? Jeeze.
No one wants anything you have created... so your response makes sense.
I used to think Warez was a pyramid scheme or something because there used to be a user who would shill and promote the shit out of it on their avatar and signature in the old gametrailer forums.
EDIT: Actually I'm thinking of Lockerz
Only in GAF someone compares pedophiles with torrenting. What the fuck is wrong with you.
I still remember the numbers of some of my local BBSes.RZR1911 used to advertise their BBS (all located in Sweden at the time) in their cracktros and demos
Voyager has a long ass list of BBS numbers
I don't like reminding people of their old thread, but I don't think you're the right person to take the moral high ground here.... i mean giving your money to the north korean regime is way worse than pirating IMO...
I didn't judge you for it at the time, but then you post this here, way to go! What a shitty comparison
YES I know the intro song is still fantastic, shame not more people have seen the series because its really good.came here to post this.
still love that intro song.
I still remember the numbers of some of my local BBSes.
Telex v3.22. XTreeGold and the Alt-255 directories. VBBS. Telegard. WWIV. ARJ vs. PKZip. Fossil drivers/X00.sys. None of my interns know what any of these things mean .
There is this old youtube video, if it helps?5 pages in and nobody posted that "IT'S NOT THEFT!!!!" image? Disappointed
I actually kinda would like to see a documentary about this and the early days of the internet in general
B: Don't worry Mr B., I have a cunning plan to solve the problem.
E: Yes Baldrick, let us not forget that you tried to solve the problem
of your mother's low ceiling by cutting off her head.
B: But this is a really good one. You become a dashing highwayman, then
you can pay all your bills and, on top of that, everyone'll want to
sleep with you.
E: Baldrick, I could become a prostitute and pay my bills, then
everyone would want to sleep with me - but I do consider certain
professions beneath me. But besides which, I fail to see why a common
thief should be idolised, just because he has a horse between his legs.
B: My favourite's the Shadow. (Admiringly) What a man! They say he's
half-way to being the new Robin Hood.
E: Why only half-way?
B: Well he steals from the rich, but he hasn't got round to giving it
to the poor yet. Look! I've got a poster of him.
E: Yes, I'm afraid I am. Unless, oh unless! Pass me the paper Baldrick
quick. (he opens the paper) Baldrick, why has half the front page been
cut out?
B: I don't know.
E: You do know, don't you?
B: Yes.
E: You've been cutting out the cuttings about the elusive Shadow to put
in your highwayman's scrapbook haven't you?
B: Oh, I can't help it Mr B. His life is so dark and shadowy and full
of fear and trepidation.
E: So is going to the toilet in the middle of the night, but you don't
keep a scrapbook on it.
this thread reminded me of this game
it's like a visual novel where you control a computer connected to representations of 80s-era BBSs
don't know how accurate the depiction of the warez scene is
Yup.Demoscene also is responsible for lots of graphics tricks you see in video games today!!
http://textfiles.com/statement.html said:A wonderful thing happened in the 1980s: Life started to go online. And as the world continues this trend, everyone finding themselves drawn online should know what happened before, to see where it all really started to come together and to know what went on, before it's forgotten.
When a historian or reporter tries to capture the feelings and themes that proliferated through the BBS Scene of the early 1980's, the reader nearly always experiences a mere glimpse of what went on. This is probably true of most any third-party reporting, but when the culture is your own, and when the experiences were your own, the gap between story and reality is that much wider, and it's that much harder to sit back and let the cliche-filled summary become "The Way It Was." You want to do something, anything so that the people who stumble onto the part of history that was yours know what it was like to grow up through it, to meet the people you did, to do the things you enjoyed doing. Maybe, you hope, they might even see the broader picture and the conclusions that you yourself couldn't see at the time. This is history the way the chronicled want it to be.
http://textfiles.com/piracy/groups said:The first group we are going to "review" is TPU. TPU is a new group
that stands for, with alternating caps removed for your viewing pleasure, The
People Upstairs. I recently got my hot little hands on their first release,
Elite Acro List v1.0. Lo and behold, it was none other than BTW's Cheat Sheet
repackaged! It took us HOURS to assemble it, and five minutes for them to hack
it!
I called up their WHQ to flame those lamers! I logged on, filled out
the usual crap, sent my validation letter, and got full access to all elite
areas! I didn't have to get validated! Any fed could have called up, filled
out (even blatantly phony info) and busted 'em in all of five minutes!
While I was there, I checked out their file bases. They had TWO! One
was "TPU releases" and had THREE files in it! I downloaded another release of
theirs (one was the acro list and one was 1.5 megs and I didn't feel like
racking up my phone bill too much.) The transfer was fast (it was a 50K file)
and error-free.
When I got it back onto my computer, I tried to unzip it. The ZIP was
corrupt! Off of their WHQ! I PKZIPFIXed it and extracted a semi-working "K00L
3Li+3 TrAnSlAtOr". Pathetic, I tell you, utterly pathetic. I ran it. First I
saw their logo. Amateurish as all hell. Must have took 'em five whole
minutes.
Then I translated their NFO file for the hell of it. I looked at the
results. They had stripped it of all CR/LFs. It was just one big jumble! And
the translation was to high-bit ASCII. Someone ought to tell these guys that
high-bit ASCII went out with alternating caps, if not earlier! All in all, TPU
is the lamest group I've EVER seen.
http://textfiles.com/piracy/manifest.-6 said:Lastly, let us say a few words about the DORKS who have been compiling
huge phone list of all the pirate bulletin boards in an Area Code and
then sending them out onto the bulletin boards. Congratulations you
fucking two bit losers. In your attempt to be 'kewl' you have handed
the police, Pinkerton's, Wackenhut, the RCMP, the Secret Service, Bell,
and every anti-pirate asshole the phone numbers and rankings of the
elite bulletin boards. Think what you have done you dick brains.
Who the phucks payroll are these dickwads on. Are they really so fucking
mindless as to not think the cops and good guys were not going to get
their hands on those phone list. Phuuuuckkk you guys must have the
combined IQ's of a snail.
Permit me to suggest that a FIREBOMB be gently hurled through the phucking
windows of those dickwads who released that LEGENDS.ONT and named off all
the 416 and 905 bulletin boards. You dick wads really did a great favour
by giving their phone numbers to every dickwad who read your shitty little
grab for fame. Maybe your next grab for fame will be as a headline in
the newspaper as the largest house fire this century. Assholes.
Please use what phucking little brains you have next time before you
attempt to be kewl by exposing all the 416 and 905 bulletin boards to
the cops. DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB !!!
http://textfiles.com/piracy/CRACKING/c1.txt said:First of all, let me stress the importance of cracking in
our everyday life. Cracking it's not just about software, it's
about information, about all patterns of life. To crack is to
refuse to be controlled and used by others, to crack is to be
free. But you must also be yourself free from petty conventions
in order to crack properly.
You must learn to discerne cracking possibilities all around
yourself, and believe me, the development of this ghastly society
brings every day new codes, protections and concealing
mechanismes.
All around us grows a world of codes and secret and not so
secret patterns. Codes that are at times so familiar and common
that we do not even notice them any more... and yet they are
there to fool us, and yet they offer marvellous cracking
possibilities.
Let's take as an striking example BARCODES... those little
lines that you see on any book you buy, on any bottle you get,
on any item around you... do you know how they work? If you do
not you may be excused, but you cannot be excused if you never
had the impulse to understand them... crackers are curious by
nature... heirs of an almost extinct race of researchers that has
nothing in common with the television slaves and the publicity
and trend zombies around us. Cracker should always be capable of
going beyond the obvious, seek knowledge where others do not see
and do not venture.
http://textfiles.com/piracy/overkill.txt said:We do not want anyone to get the wrong idea about our group. We are
not here in the 914 area-code to reak havok. The purpose of our group is
to eliminate lamerism of any way, shape, or form. We have 4 members that
will find very illustrious ways to do this.
First off, what some people may wonder is, "What constitutes being
lame"? Well, if you're asking yourself that question, then you are, in
fact, lame. We, for the most part, only harass lamers in their purest
form. For instance, rarely, if ever, do we harass 9600 baud or above
users. The majority of the time its a 2400 baud or below user. In my honest
opinion, a person is lame no matter what baud rate they are at, but being
that Overkill is a group of compassionate people, we see that the "lame"
9600+ users at least have potential to become elite. 2400- users have no
hope in this matter.
We will work with the Elite SysOp's to eliminate the lamers off of
their respective BBS's. All Elite SysOp's are more than happy to comply
with us, because they want to eliminate lamerism as much as we do, they
just don't want to be as radical as we are in order to accomplish it. If
they have no intention of eliminating their lame users, then they are lame
and will pay the price. That is how we go about eliminating lamers off of
Elite BBS's.
But then there, of course, is what we call the "Ultra-Lamer". An
Ultra-Lamer is user who is lame enough to start his own BBS. Its not
enough that they start a BBS like this, but it is a breeding ground for
lamers. This MUST be stopped. These systems must be eliminated in the
BBS community. This is the biggest help in the elimination of lamerism.
If you kill the breeding grounds, lamers will have no where to go and will
wither away into nothingness.
No one wants anything you have created... so your response makes sense.