What is Defacto2?

Defacto2 is a web site that is dedicated to the preservation of the computer underground counterculture with a focus on the PC cracking scene.

Defacto2 documents and hosts the legal off-shoots that are derived from the PC cracking and warez scenes. This means all the text files, demos, music, art, magazines and products that are cracking related but are not illegal in themselves will be hosted and discussed here. Just to clarify, PC refers a personal computer that runs an edition of Microsoft Windows. Or before Windows was mainstream it meant a computer that was IBM-PC compatible that could run MS-DOS (or similar).

We chose to cover this niche area because in our early days very few people were. We believe that without this collection an important element of the computer underground could potentially be lost and eventually forgotten. Due to the nature of robin-hood cracking with its high churn rate for participants this is a scene that is neither well documented nor understood.

On that note we do not actively participate in or support software piracy. We do believe in supporting software developers and can honestly say that all the tools used to create this site were done with purchased software, registered shareware or open-source programs.

• What is the Computer Underground Counterculture?
• The history of Defacto2.
• Contributors to Defacto2.