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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Replying to @backus
Fascinating, but disagree about “high risk”. Very unlikely to get caught.
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Replying to @alegw
Not extremely likely you go to prison sure, but also high risk of getting fired which matters to a lot of people. Getting fired for stealing content so you can leak it is rough. Similar to being fired for embezzlement or something. Definitely industry blacklist material
6:11 PM - 13 Jun 2018
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