What is The Scene?

The Scene refers to the Warez scene on the Internet.  Warez itself is the act of distributing illegal files, including movies, music and software, between a group of anonymous web users.  The Scene works together not only to pirate releases but to distributing them on an underground network of web sites, web groups and more.  Cracking software applications, reverse engineering releases and more go into The Scene and what they do on the pirate market.  Everyone from those uploading movies to those cracking software are part of The Scene; anyone who takes part in the process of distributing files like this is part of the overall file sharing and piracy community.

The concept of The Scene itself started back during initial software engineering development before real software titles were released.  Only in the last ten years or so has the term The Scene begun to apply to the movie and music Warez network.  Basically, now, The Scene refers to anyone who uses a specialized set of cracking skills to create, edit and distribute illegal multimedia over the Internet.  This community has no leadership, no identifying marks or even admits it exists in some cases, but many of the leading pirates on the Internet are part of its ever-growing community.  So, even if you do not feel like you are part of the larger community, you are part of The Scene if you are contributing to the Warez file sharing.

Over time, The Scene started out cracking software and developed into a community of hacker and modders working together to distribute files.  Nowadays, they work together not only to crack applications and edit movies but to distribute them in a way that keeps everyone safe from anti-piracy advocates, studios, developers and law enforcement officials.  While The Scene did not start out to thrive in illegal distribution, it has become a force of nature for anti-piracy groups trying to stop the spread of illegal multimedia and those sharing them.