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List of warez groups. Warez groups are teams of individuals who have participated in the organized unauthorized publication of films, music, or other media, as well as those who can reverse engineer and crack the digital rights management ( DRM) measures applied to commercial software. This is a list of groups, both web -based and warez scene ...
Software cracking contributes to the rise of online piracy where pirated software is distributed to end-users [2] through filesharing sites like BitTorrent, One click hosting (OCH), or via Usenet downloads, or by downloading bundles of the original software with cracks or keygens. [4] Some of these tools are called keygen, patch, loader, or no ...
The term warez,which is intended to be pronounced like the word "wares" (/ˈwɛərz/), was coined in the 1990s;[5]its origin is with an unknown member of an underground computing circle,[citation needed]but has since become commonplace among Internet users and the mass media.
The Warez scene, often referred to as The Scene, [ 1] is a worldwide, underground, organized network of pirate groups specializing in obtaining and illegally releasing digital media for free before their official sale date. [ 2] The Scene distributes all forms of digital media, including computer games, movies, TV shows, music, and pornography ...
Insane TTM. Sector9. Website. razor1911.com. Razor 1911 ( RZR) is a warez and demogroup founded in Norway, 1985. It was the first ever such group to be initially founded exclusively as a demogroup, before moving into warez in 1987. [ 1] According to the US Justice Department, Razor 1911 is the oldest software cracking group that is still active ...
PARADOX ( PDX) is a warez – demogroup; an anonymous group of software engineers that devise ways to defeat software and video game licensing protections, a process known as cracking, which is illegal in most jurisdictions. They distribute cracks (software patches), keygens (key generators), and pre-cracked versions of entire programs.
FitGirl Repacks is a website distributing pirated video games. FitGirl Repacks is known for "repacking" games – compressing them significantly so they can be downloaded and shared more efficiently. [ 2][ 3] TorrentFreak listed FitGirl Repacks at sixth in 2021 [ 4] and at ninth in 2020's Top 10 Most Popular Torrent Sites lists. [ 5]
FairLight ( FLT) is a warez and demo group initially involved in the Commodore demoscene, and in cracking to illegally release games for free, since 1987. In addition to the C64, FairLight has also migrated towards the Amiga, Super NES and later the PC. [ 1] FairLight was founded during the Easter holiday in 1987 by Strider and Black Shadow ...