Does your mental model of human behavior explain the 2000s warez scene? • Competition to leak high profile albums • High risk of prison • Not for profit! • Against rules to share leaks outside The Scene • Not about love for music. They leaked the SpongeBob movie soundtrack
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In other words: • Highly competitive • High risk • No financial motive • No ideological motive (like liberating music or taking down the industry) • Not about love of art
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Yes, this to me seems like the most irrational community activities on the web. There is so little public information about how these things work though, I would not be surprised if the financial motive part actually turned out to be incorrect - just not transparent.
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I've learned a lot by listening to http://a.co/1rHLXwu The lack of financial motive wasn't 100% absent, but the norms were definitely strong and I'm fairly convinced that a lot of members likely weren't making money off of it and even more weren't inherently driven by it
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