Very talented guys in the demo/cracktro scene. Plenty to watch on YouTube.
Care to recommend a video to start with?
Shane Pitman, leader of the warez group Razor 1911: life after prison (2005)
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Re: Shane Pitman, leader of the warez group Razor 1911: life after prison (2005)
#12Ruined a guys life because of overestimated profits. Ridiculous
Re: Shane Pitman, leader of the warez group Razor 1911: life after prison (2005)
#13My childhood hero. Sad to read what he went through in prison. The warez scene is still active and there's no slowing down so this bust doesn't really mean shit. Shoutout to the OGs RELOADED, SKIDROW, RAZOR, PARADOX,CODEX.
Re: Shane Pitman, leader of the warez group Razor 1911: life after prison (2005)
#14What was the crime he was sentenced for?
Re: Shane Pitman, leader of the warez group Razor 1911: life after prison (2005)
#15It doesn't serve society at all for this type of non-violent crime to result in prison time.
Re: Shane Pitman, leader of the warez group Razor 1911: life after prison (2005)
#16If you don't want to do the time, don't do the crime. Just because it happens on a computer in cyber space, doesn't mean it's not real.
Re: Shane Pitman, leader of the warez group Razor 1911: life after prison (2005)
#17If you don't want to do the time, don't do the crime. Just because it happens on a computer in cyber space, doesn't mean it's not real.
Cracking software doesn't warrant hard prison sentences. That's a double negative for society.
Re: Shane Pitman, leader of the warez group Razor 1911: life after prison (2005)
#18What was the crime he was sentenced for?
https://www.justice.gov/archive/criminal/cybercrime/press-re... [2003]
> announced today that Shane E. Pitman, age 31, of Conover, North Carolina, was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison by the Honorable James C. Cacheris, United States District Judge, for conspiring to violate criminal copyright laws as the former leader of the oldest game software piracy ring on the Internet.
Btw: Coming from Europe - this whole thing about doing a public press release about each sentenced person things seems a bit off. There's a balance to be struck - and I'm honestly not quite sure we're doing it right in northern Europe with our extreme privacy for convicted people...
Re: Shane Pitman, leader of the warez group Razor 1911: life after prison (2005)
#19Why do people like him think copyright laws are bad and made by rich people, but also support open source software, which relies on the same copyright laws to exist.
If hes an anarchist then fine, but it looks like he wants laws that benefit him and not people that actually write software.
I read the whole thing and I still don't know why he did it. He says there was no money incentive and his work had no impact on piracy. What was its purpose then?
Re: Shane Pitman, leader of the warez group Razor 1911: life after prison (2005)
#20If you don't want to do the time, don't do the crime. Just because it happens on a computer in cyber space, doesn't mean it's not real.
Cracking software doesn't warrant hard prison sentences. That's a double negative for society.
He ruined the lives of many hard-working software developers who relied on selling their code to feed their families.
This was back when programming was a highly skilled and difficult job that only a few could do, so cracking was even more harshly targeting people.