Scene Info.md

Anti-tamper systems

• Adobe Primetime
• CENC ClearKey
• Denuvo
• Enigma Protector
• Google Widevine Modular DRM
• Marlin
• Microsoft Playready
• Valeroa
• Verimatrix
• VMProtect

Basic Piracy & Scene "starter" info

• artscene.textfiles.com - Related files and art packs served in compressed formats.
• Down For Everyone Or Just Me - Check if the website is offline
• Jason Scott aka /u/textfiles BBS The Documentary Part 5 - Artscene
• No Copy (2008) - YouTube Video - A brief history of piracy and filesharing.
• Piracy 101
• Scene Rules
• The Art of Warez Article
• The Art Of Warez - A recent 30 minute explanation and round up of the Artscene paired with some very prolific examples from many groups.
• The Warez Scene: How it works
• What is the scene?
• Wikipedia's Comparison of file hosting services
• Wikipedia's Definition of Pubstro
• Wikipedia's List of warez groups
• Wiktionary's Definition of piracy

Demoscene

• What is the Demoscene?
• Demoo
• DemoParty
• demoscene.info
• Monostep
• pouët.net
• Scene.org Awards
• Scene.org

Scene Release Info & pre databases (predb)

• Where does a PRE come from?
• 3dsdb
• abgx
• CSDb
• d00per.com
• DVD ReleaseDates
• German pre (Ger)
• Logic Sunrise (FR)
• Movie Release Types (as .PNG Image)
• mp3 Scene
• nfo.nydus.org (Ger)
• NGP
• NSW releases
• NSWDB
• PRE & Trace
• pre.corrupt-net.org + Mirror
• predb.me
• predb.pw + predb.org
• ProLikeWoah
• ReleaseBB
• Release Lister (EN/GER)
• Release Watcher
• renascene
• ROM news
• Scene Group List
• SCENE-SCRiPTS
• SCNLOG.me
• ScnSrc.me
• SrrDB
• SweTracker
• XBins
• XEM
• xrel.to (Ger)
• z0x.us
• pre.fyp.nl
• rss-hd
• predb.eu

Pre channel

• Corrupt-Net – New P2P Friendly IRC Network With Public Pre and Tracer Channels - List of public IRC pre channels.
• List Of Public Pre & Trace Services To Track Latest Scene Releases (IRC + Web Based)
• Warez (scene) Release Databases

Public piracy discussion channels & FAQs

• f/Piracy - Raddle Forum - Piracy is not theft.
• s/piracy - Saidit Forum - Yet another reddit alternative.
• Welcome to the f/privacy FAQ - Proudly ripped this FAQ off from a non-privacy-friendly site!

Piracy Archive

• 27 Years of Warez Scene Release Info Leaked in Giant Database
• Archive of r/Megalinks from 11th April 2018 - A complete backup of the reddit r/Megalinks sub.
• OpenTrackers - Opentrackers.org Warez Scene Overview.
• Piracy Archive - A complete backup of the Reddit r/Piracy sub.

DarkWeb Overview

• ProjectX - DarkWeb pages overview (yet another one) is designed to show Deep Web specific pages, software and other information around the deeper web.

Malware in Trackers (Info)

• Pirate matryoshka - Pirate matryoshka: Malware infection via trackers

What is a Seedbox and why do I need it?

• What is a Seedbox?
• Wikipedia's article what a Seedbox is

Usenet

• /r/Usenet - A thriving community dedicated to helping users old and new understand and use usenet.
• /r/UsenetInvites - Requests and offers for Usenet indexers.
• /r/Usenet wiki: indexers - Information about /r/Usenet's favourite indexing services.
• NZBLINK - The NZBLNK™ URI scheme defines the format of NZBLNK™ links to identify binary Usenet content and supplies some extra information to handle that content correct (similar to magnet links, but for NZBs).
• QuickPar - Tool for reconstructing damaged/missing/corrupt Usenet binaries.
• Wikipedia's Usenet newsgroup article - A Usenet newsgroup is a repository usually within the Usenet system, for messages posted from many users in different locations using the Internet.
• Usenet-Uploaders - Table of applications for uploading content to Usenet.
• Usenet - Usenet is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers.

Tracker checker (online/offline)

• Tracker Status - Check if tracker status.