Thread: R.I.P. ScT

https://www.us.scenetorrents.org

It's officially down.
Heres a spot for ex-members to express their condolences.

Last torrent was uploaded by the owner Feeling. It was an NFO that said the following.

By now most of you already know that ScT will be going offline permanently.

However, due to pending legal issues, we are not at liberty to speak freely about why we've chosen to take down the site.
Members of our staff were arrested and will be undergoing the entire length of the judicial process.
Obviously, in the case of criminal proceedings, it would be downright foolish to comment any further on the situation;

Please bear this in mind and wish them the best of luck.



There have been several theories as to where the donation money (of the recent months) has gone. We'd like to take this opportunity to put all skepticism to rest.
The money was used to purchase new hardware that would ensure our spot as the fastest tracker on the net.
You are free to perform whatever calculations you feel necessary, but in doing so it should become very clear that running a site of this stature costs money.
We feel the overwhelming cynicism is just a product of bad timing compounded with general frustration caused by the current situation.


We sincerely hope that you've enjoyed being a part of our wonderful community over the past 4 1/2 years.
We've certainly enjoyed our members letting us be of service. We've always felt our user base played an equally important role in making SceneTorrents.org a model environment in the torrent world.


The staff would also like to express their gratitude to fellow trackers for their support in such a chaotic time. Several well known communities have voluntarily opened their doors, and have offered our former users a new home.
We appreciate the courtesy and acknowledge the steps being taken to move forward collectively as a community. Your assistance does not go unrecognized.



//ScT Staff

The legacy of ScT continues!
Ex-members, including myself, are in the works on the the next version.
I'll keep TI updated.

RiP ScT :(
Sadly missed by many users!

thanx kon i was wondering.

with all the big ones going down should we here at TI be even more concerned who we allow here?

We should be mindful of newcomers no matter what! This is the way of the warrior/tracker. The scene has been around since the 70's and has changed forms many times. We thought the world was over when Napster went down. (Before it was legal)

We must remember that death is a necessary part of the circle, without it we never grow or change.

History

The Warez scene started emerging in 1970s used by predecessors of cracking and reverse engineering groups, their work made public on privately run BBS systems.[4] The first BBSes were located in the USA, but similar boards started appearing in the UK, Australia and mainland Europe. At the time setting up a machine capable of distributing data was not a trivial matter and required a certain amount of technical skill. The reason it was usually done was for the technical challenge. The BBS systems typically hosted several megabytes of material. The best boards had multiple phone lines and up to one hundred megabytes of storage space, which was very expensive at the time.[5] Releases were mostly games and later applications.

As the world of software development evolved to counter the distribution of material and as the software and hardware needed for distribution became readily available to anyone, The Scene adapted to the changes and turned from simple distribution to actual cracking of the protections and non-commercial reverse engineering.[4] As many groups of people who wanted to do this emerged, a requirement for promotion of individual groups became evident, which prompted the evolution of the Artscene, which specialized in the creation of graphical art associated with individual groups.[6] The groups would promote their abilities with ever more sophisticated and advanced software, graphical art and later also music (Demoscene).[7]

The subcommunities (artscene, demoscene, etc), which had nothing inherently illegal with them, eventually branched off. Also, the programs containing the group promotional material, that is coding/graphical/musical presentations evolved to become separate programs distributed through The Scene and were nicknamed Intros and later Cracktros.

The demoscene grew especially strong in Scandinavia, where annual gatherings are hosted even today.[8]

Quote taken from Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warez_scene