Hacker Cinema
The Scene
2004 · TV series · 20 min episodes · 2 seasons
Created by Mitchel Reichgut
NYU student Brian Sandro has a secret: he and his friends pirate hundreds of millions of dollars of illicit Hollywood movies in their spare time. They are revered, reviled, hunted and admired. No one knows who they are - at least, not as far as they know.
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I hope one day someone will make a movie about the warez scene. The only piece of media we have as far as I'm aware is The Scene (2004–2006) which I wholeheartedly recommend to anyone with a love for moving bytes around illegally.
Ah, memories from when the internet was still good. Anyone know of any good writing about that time on the internet? IRC, FTP, USENET etc? There was a miniseries called "The Scene" which captured some of it. Some of it is just childhood memories, but I'm also convinced it was a special time that won't be coming back.
Aw man does anyone remember way back in the day there was a TV show produced by (I think Sony?) that was all about IRC pirating?
Edit: I think it was this, "The Scene" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scene_(miniseries)
The Scene is a fun and related miniseries worth mentioning and checking out. [0][1]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scene_(miniseries)
[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC2FCB2871C396459
Did anyone watch the WebTV series called "The Scene" ? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scene_(miniseries)
https://youtu.be/xIs_5nfJKu4
Ha, reminds me strongly of 'The Scene' [1]. Does anybody remember that series?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scene_(miniseries)
If you find this stuff interesting, as I do, I would check out http://www.welcometothescene.com/ (Dead link). It was a web-series about the scene that was pretty much completely a screen recording of the "main character" which I don't think we ever see. The entire thing is watching chat logs and this person rip/upload movies and the like. I'm sure you can find a torrent kicking around out there of it (if you can't email me). Here is the wiki page on it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scene_(miniseries)
The Scene also has a bunch of other interviews (for instance with Eddie Cue, Priscilla Chan,etc) in the series that are very interesting too. Check them out on the right hand film strip
If The Scene interests you then you may want to check out http://www.welcometothescene.com/
It's an internet-TV show the follows a group (not a documentary, it's all staged) that releases movies. The first "season" was very good and I highly recommend it. The second has yet to really interest me. I watched a few episodes but it's different from the first.
There used to be a selfmade low budget series called The Scene which showed the internal workings of release groups:
http://www.welcometothescene.com/faq.html
I watched 2 episodes or so before it became too boring watching people chat on AIM, but I learned quite a bit about the internals (in how far these are true, I do not know - the makers say it's fictional but the stories are authentic)