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In case anybody wants to learn more about the scene. From Wired magazine. It's old but still relevant.
Wired 13.01: The Shadow Internet
In case anybody wants to learn more about the scene. From Wired magazine. It's old but still relevant.
Toby is a master ripper. At 22, he's got a big man's frame but looks malnourished, like he doesn't get enough vegetables. He spends most of his time preparing movies for the Netflix Project. Started by an anonymous donor - again, an angel investor willing to devote money but not time to media piracy - the Netflix Project aims to archive every film offered by the subscription service. "Netflix offers about 25,000 movies," says Toby. "We've got maybe half of them.
Ah man.. downloading all day as 'working' on a project... I would even pay to do that :)
haha. Yeah that sounds like it would be fun.... for about a week.All the petty organization work involved would probably drive me crazy. You would have to have a seriously "type A" personality for that. I'm practically the poster boy for "type B" personality people.
"Movie pirates get their booty from one of three sources: industry insiders, projectionists, or agents placed inside disc-stamping plants and retail outlets. "Half the kids in the scene work at Best Buy or Blockbuster to get their hands on stuff they can release," says Frank. "
This is more than true! Lol Loved the article! Good job and thanks for sharing :)
The thanks button doesnt appear here but when it gets availabe I will thank you. This is very good to our knowlegment ;)
^ Thanks for the feedback. I'm glad you enjoyed it. This article is actually in the FAQ section at PTM so I thought I would share it here.
Very good article. I enjoyed the read :)
Very old, i've read that already at least twice xD
Thanks anyway :)
You know, before this I've always have that question around me: Wtf is the scene???? Really it was like some sort of alien word for me...now everything is more clear. Thank you for sharing the article with us ;)
Very entertaining reading-
This is very informative thanks for putting it up. I really enjoyed reading through the article. I didnt realize how in depth this all went
There was a interesting internet series about the scene some time ago produced by one of the sources in the article called The Scene.
The second series sucked, but the first actually happened to mirror some real life events that were happening in the scene at that time involving one of the bigger groups also mentioned in the article.
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