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• A personal page about the scene circa 1997

  AH! The good old days. I used to roam bbs's around the world getting wares as well as getting those wonderful ansi packs (that I still have BTW - contact me if you want some). When I started in 1992, everything was almost over in the scene, INC the biggest cracking team, as well as the first on PC's (I think?) was dying. Then it came to THG, and Phoenix, a local (but very good) Montreal cracking team. Then there was Nuke and Darkman (which I met accidentaly - BTW those Nuke people are VERY dangerous and I think they still exist).

  http://www.defacto2.net/waybackdoc/a-personal-page-about-the-scene-circa-1997/index.html

• A primer to the ISO scene circa 1998

  Enter the "iso scene": One day, Pirate1 figured out that he could transfer his iso image of GameX to Pirate2 over the internet where Pirate2 could then burn the image and essentially have an exact duplicate of the original! Imagine the possibilities... to share one massive CD collection with all of the greater pirate community. PC games, utils, and console games can all be traded the same way. Expand your PSX or Saturn collection for the mere cost of a blank CD ($2). Download company patches and version upgrades without worrying about compatibility with your rip. Get the latest programming/graphics utils with full online docs and examples (finally!) instead of seeing them ripped out. Build a massive CD library and be the envy of all the other kids on your street!

  http://www.defacto2.net/waybackdoc/a-primer-to-the-iso-scene-circa-1998/index.html

• Apollo-X Demo Resources from 1999, December 17

  http://www.defacto2.net/waybackweb/apollo-x-demo-resources-1999-december-17/index.htm

• Hacker Crackdown from 1994, January

  http://www.defacto2.net/waybackdoc/hacker-crackdown-from-january-1994/index.html

• Warez, Abandonware, and the Software Industry

  Brass Lantern Warez Abandonware and the Software Industry. In the battles over computer software there are many sides, including warez users, abandonware proponents, and the software companies themselves. A look at the three views of digital intellectual property. In this section: intellectual property rights.
  What does it mean to own software? When I buy a game, what can and can't I do with it? Does illegal copying of software really hurt anyone? If a company no longer sells a game, should I be able to download a copy of it? Not too long ago, most people would never have given any of these questions a thought. But as computer use has spread, and with it the use of software, these questions have gained in currency.

  http://brasslantern.org/community/companies/warez.html

• Hacker/Pirate Interaction in the Computer Underground by Albert Lin

  Paper for MIT 6.805/STS085: Ethics and Law on the Electronic Frontier, Fall 1995.

  http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/student-papers/fall95-papers/lin-pirate.html

• Interview with BiGrAR busted DrinkOrDie member from 2004, October 2

  Former DrinkOrDie Member Chris Tresco Answers - Slashdot. Okay, former DrinkOrDie member and convicted warez dude Chris Tresco got his answers to your questions back to us, so here they are. (Note: Chris does not advise you to follow in his footsteps.)...
  A Slashdot public interview conducted with former Drink Or Die member BiGrAr, taken before he served a 33 month jail sentence after being busted in Operation Buccaneer.

  http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/04/144217

• Abandoned Games for All Who Enter Here from 2002, June 12

  The Adrenaline Vault. The Adrenaline Vault is an independent source of uninfluenced and unbiased videogame information.
  About 14 years ago, I discovered a gem of a game called Life and Death. It was a doctor sim in which you diagnosed and treated patients. The most exciting and challenging parts of its gameplay were the surgery sections, when you had to perform entire operations - from laying out the sheet and disinfecting the gear all the way through putting the final stitches in the incision. Although I was too young to appreciate the title's finer nuances, I did have a tremendous amount of fun carving my name in the patient's flesh with the scalpel and listening to his resulting screams. I eventually put Life and Death aside and moved on to titles more appropriate to my temperament such as Wolfenstein 3D and Blake Stone.

  http://www.avault.com/articles/getarticle.asp?name=abandonw

• Operation Buccaneer

  USDOJ: 404 Error Page.
  Operation Buccaneer is an ongoing international copyright piracy investigation and prosecution undertaken by federal law enforcement. On December 11, 2001, in a coordinated international effort, the U.S. Customs Service and the Department of Justice executed, or caused to be executed, more than 65 searches in the U.S. and five foreign countries. As of October, 2002, 16 defendants have been convicted in the U.S. of felony criminal copyright offenses, including conspiracy to commit those offenses, and 13 defendants have been sentenced to federal prison terms of up to 46 months. These are the longest sentences ever imposed in the United States for Internet copyright piracy. Additional guilty pleas and sentencings are scheduled in the coming months.

  http://www.cybercrime.gov/ob/obmain.htm · Status: 404 Not Found

• Multiple Enforcement Actions Worldwide Snare Top Warez Leadership from 2001, December 11

  USDOJ: 404 Error Page.
  Attorney General John Ashcroft announced today that in three separate federal law enforcement actions federal agents executed approximately 100 search warrants worldwide against virtually every level of criminal organizations engaged in illegal software piracy over the Internet. The three Operations, codenamed 'Buccaneer,' 'Bandwidth' and 'Digital Piratez,' struck at all aspects of the illegal software, game and movie trade, often referred to as 'warez scene.'.

  http://www.cybercrime.gov/warezoperations.htm · Status: 404 Not Found