The battle between warez scene groups and P2P oriented ‘non scene’ groups (who usually release on private/public BitTorrent trackers as opposed to scene topsites) has been raging for quite a while now. Initially the scene declared war on P2P due to the easy accessibility it gave to scene releases which were meant to be shared only among scene members. However now things are a little different – P2P groups with good sources have grown in numbers and they sometimes beat scene groups into releasing some popular pirated material. With all these changes, the scene’s hatred towards P2P might not just be about security anymore. It could even be because of ‘competition’.
Following are several Scene Notices that triggered the latest episode of e-drama series Scene vs P2P. The first notice accuses scene group APOLLO of stealing encodes from What.CD, the popular private music torrent tracker. The second notice contains APOLLO’s reply and then the war rages on for four more scenenotices (some of these include screenshots/images as ‘proof’). For those interested in reading them, we’ve included download links below:
- Group_ApoLLo-Pre_FLAC_Converted_Releases_From_Wut.CD-(PROOF_iNSIDE)-2009-ApoLLo [Download]
- Response_To_Group_ApoLLo-Pre_FLAC_Converted_Releases_From_Wut.CD-(PROOF_iNSIDE)-2009-ApoLLo [Download]
- Set_Your_Goals-This_Will_Be_the_Death_of_Us-PROOF_THAT_FNT_RETAGGED_OUR_RIP-2009-ApoLLo [Download]
- 30_Bucks-You_Will_Move_It_Like_A_Real_Donkey_O_Toes-2009-ApoLLO [Download]
- Another_One-Just_To_Show_You_Suck-2009-ApoLLO [Download]
- VA-What_About_Another-Real_Perm_Ban-2009-ApollO [Download]
We don’t really know if APOLLO really stole encodes from what.cd or not. But it’s kinda ironic that even the scene member who accuses APOLLO of stealing from What.CD and trashing p2p himself is actually an active member of the BitTorrent tracker. Once again this is E-drama at its beast so read it and forget it :)
