Paradox (warez)

Paradox (proper spelling: PARADOX, abbreviated PDX) is a warez, demo and cracking group. The group was founded in late 1989 by former members of the Danish group Trilogy ( Bad Boy, Black Hawk, Tas, PCSU, QRD ) and the French group MAD ( Olivier, Stinger, The Surge, Clash, Tagada ). After the group disbanded in 1991, as many active members switched to Quartex, the group of Max Maximilien Louarn and former members Quartex Black Hawk and Paragon was revived.

In its early days paradox was mainly specializes in the crack of Amiga software. Later on the Sega Genesis and the Super Nintendo Entertainment System were added. Paradox published any crack for the PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, Dreamcast, Nintendo 64, Nintendo GameCube, Wii and Xbox.

Arrests

Both the original founder Olivier, Clash and Tagada, and the subsequent Paradox founder Maximilien were arrested because of their activities. While Olivier, Clash and Tagada for the use of the Blue Box ( phreaking ) were arrested in France, was Max Maximilien Louarn because of the pirated copy of Super Nintendo games in 1993 and a year later calling card fraud at MCI Communications, where among other things, Kim Schmitz was involved.

Demoparty Awards

Some of the published by Paradox Demos won prizes at Demoparties: