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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The warez scene had a lot of aesthetic appeal and thrill: secret sites, clandestine networks, international conspiracy, high-quality releases, grafitti-like tags and aliases, tribes, rebellion, cyberpunk, and so on...
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Also a way to explore technical curiosity. Setting up FTP servers, email servers, bots, mods, network offense/defense/forensics etc
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Yes, read about the founder of OiNK. He was a CS student frustrated by his university teaching him Fortran instead of skills he could use to build modern tools. Building OiNK taught him enough about PHP and MySQL to get a job. Another lesson from @stephenwitt's book
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