Warez group

Under Release Group ( of release, German: Publication ) or Warez Group is understood to illegally posted on the Internet in the computer scene a group that movies, music, software, scripts and / or game ( Warez ). Release Groups are part of a global subculture that refers to himself as The Scene.

History

Release Groups are the development of a subculture that with the cracker groups started in the 80s on computer systems such as C64 and later transferred to systems such as the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST. At those times they called themselves even as they had focused exclusively on the removal of copy protection cracking groups. While this form of a scene primarily acted very closed ( exchange by mail, bulletin board systems, mailboxes ), is no longer limited to the world of Releasegroups through the Internet. Hence the suspected damage by illegal copies is greater than in the past.

Structure and organization

A Release Group consists usually of several individuals who take on various tasks and activities:

• Leader - organizer of the Group
• Supplier - Has access to genuine software and makes it available to the group members
• Cracker - Eliminates the copy
• Courier / Trader - Distributes the release worldwide via FTP and FXP
• Dubber - Synchronizes the Mic / Line (Audio ) to the desired video source.
• Trader Group - A community whose members are spread across multiple servers together Releases / boxes.
• Techs - System administrator of the computer
• Ripper - Manufactures copies of existing DVDs to

In so-called RiP - releasers ( engl. to rip something out - tear out some) other packing methods are used, such as UHARC and ACE. Rips are able to run copies of the originals that do just the bare essentials. Some of the textures are compressed for PC games. To further compress are made by the programmers of the Groups special tools, for example to virtually lossless compress MP3 files on. Then everything will be mated to an installation routine. RIPs differ mostly by the quality compared to the other methods because the agonyty is usually worse.

Known release groups are, inter alia Myth ( " Myth is always ahead of the class" ) and Class ("The class Will Remain a myth long time after Myth will be gone" ), which in a great rivalry until the dissolution of Myth October 2005 wont. Other known release groups in German-speaking include ITG, SOF, AOE, CPL, X -COPY EMPiRE, CiS, PFD, Pleaders, NTG, CiNTAX, VCF and TVR. These shortcuts are usually called right after the series title.

For Release Group it is also common for the release settle so-called NFO files. This includes not only information about the release itself, but also serves as a forum for the respective Release Group which resulted in internal greetings, acknowledgments, ironic comments or opinions will be notified. The NFOs are usually structured like this:

The scene also supplies himself and others with pre-installed programs in operating system setup. These, mostly Windows, ISOs are usually still with all product updates and will be updated monthly. To avoid any confusion or change, the checksum or the like (eg, MD5, SHA ) is published the respective releases on the relevant websites.