The Scene is a collection of pirate networks that illegally obtain and transfer new movies, music, and games before they are even released and distribute them throughout the Internet. These kinds of people are extremely organized in their behavior and are very paranoid about their secrecy. They maintain a so-called "hidden network" of top-level FTP sites that get the highest quality files first and allow them to fall down the elaborate pyramid of illegal downloaders until seen on P2P programs and networks.

Around 1980s demoscene branched from the Scene.

the.scene is also a mini-series about the pirate scene. The series were financed through sponsorship deals and released for free on the P2P under a Creative Commons license.

It is rumored to be made by Sony. Mitchell Reichgut, director of the series, says in an e-mail newsletter:

"Another question that keeps coming up in our IRC channel and in forums around the Web, is our rumored connection to SONY. As it happens, one of our producers has a day job there (which was probably the genesis of all the conspiracy theories) but that's as far as it goes. We pay for "The Scene" ourselves; I write all the scripts, and the idea that the show is some kind of anti-piracy propaganda is truly silly."

External Links

• Inside the Shadow Internet on Slashdot
• The Shadow Internet
• Official page of the series

See also

• Artscene
• Demoscene
• Warez scene