my P2P story

in the Beginning we had only http links to download what we need music, movies, Apps and other stuff, it was slow and painful, also quality was acceptable - awful. (there were also some irc channels but boring to use).
we heard that there are secret groups (American - Russian - Chines) Record Movies from the Cinema screen or grab them from CD's, VHS, TC and DVDs and upload them or buy - download Software / games then crack them and upload those releases on the internet.
and also there wrer some random guyz who go to the Cinemas with personal Video camera and record the movie then upload it on the internet and yes you can see the Audience is moving around the Screen.
But Scene groups were Professional they used Pro video camera or sometime they grab the movie directly from the File print directly and those movies versions was he best really after the official DVD ver. which will be released after month or months.

Secret Groups called them selves "Scene Groups", and Random Guyz called them selves Non-Scene.

Then we started using a new method to download Movies and music and they called it P2P software like Kazza which was the best P2P Program at that time with E-Donkey.

after P2P Software got swarmed by trojans and malwares and got attacked by Movies and Music companies, Torrent Protocol has been invented by a guy called "Cohen".

we used to have in the Beginning only Public trackers like SuprNova and other younger trackers, after a while Private trackers started to emerge from no where as i remember like Demonoid, Supertorrents, TorrentDamage

Scene Releases were the only allowed Releases on most of Private Torrent trackers Specially High level ones like SCT and FeedTheNet.

also we had some trackers that allowed Non-Scene (P2P) like Demonoid which was open-signup many times per year, FinByte and many others like some Music trackers, wrestling, Apps ...etc., actually we used to have amazing private trackers for music like Oink and what.cd.

Non-Scene or P2P used to be random and personal release by anybody who is allowed to upload on Private - Public Trackers, IRC channels, P2P Apps.
there was no so harsh Rules to upload your personal release which you got from your home CD, DVD, VHS, TV Cable or any other sources,
but if you have Scene-Access regardless how that access looks like (FTP Login - irc - other methods- stealing the materials from Scene Groups) you could be uploader on high Rank torrent trackers and treated like VIP on any Torrent tracker or Torrent Forums .

last years Non-Scene (P2P) Releases are well organized and Governed by Rules and a lot of Trackers are dedicated in uploading High Quality Controlled Non-Scene Releases specially TV and Movies .
although Scene Releases still the best in in terms of trust and Quality but a lot of Non-Scene Movies and Tv shows could beat it in the part related to multiple- quality and multiple- formats releases (Remux...etc).


i will continue writing about Non-Scene P2p and Scene story

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Part 2: Scene groups

We used to Download torrents from Scene Trackers which were about 60-70% (TorrentLeech, TorrentDamage, SCT,FTN and others) of Privat Trackers and most of them High Level trackers
at that time Non-Scene releases were limited to home music, wrestling, sport and some Games Cd's - Dvd's VHS movies and shows and other stuff which have been uploaded on NON-Scene trackers by uploaders some of them not professional but there were UPLOADING Rules on NON- Scene trackers since the beginning as usual.

But Manistream movies, TV, Games and Apps were mostly Scene-release .
when Scene-Groups release their releases on their encrypted secret channels which create their secret community, some members Leak the Releases to secret FTP servers (Scene Access FTPs) which can only be accessed by very few individuals who has Scene Access (Some ppl Pay money), after that Those releases will appear on Scene private Trackers, other many P2p protocols and USEnet ...etc.
some ppl think those releases are meant to be uploaded to Torrent trackers or P2p world, BUT NO, scene releases NOT for Torrente Trackers it's for Certain parties and for thier Secret community not us.

and when a Scene release is uploaded to an FTP Server there's a race between Torrent trackers and other P2p to Grape it asap and upload it again on Torrent trackers, irc, P2p protocols ..etc,
we call that time between the appearance of the Scene release (Movie-game-TV-Apps..etc) and the emerge of the file on the Torrent tracker we call it "Pre-Time". (if a scene release is uploaded on a tracker after it being unrared we don't call it scene release although unrared is better for sure
most of scene releases are Rared files according the Scene groups Code (Rules), they are organized and strict about their rules.
if a scene group release a game, movie or tv and broke the law then they Tag the release with NUKED,
also when the release has some issues it got aged Nuked unless the group release a "Proper" version or Fix file.
if a group releases a missed or corrupted one or some rared files they release the FIX asap.

we used to see 3 words Daily on torrent Trackers Nuke,Proper and fix, Some Scene groups used to put on Purpose corrupted 1 rar file or more to manipulate the communities or to reveal Those who claim ownership of the their release by releasing the FIX.
Not only scene groups, some sneaky torrent uploaders and staff put a corrupted rar file on purpose to reveal the Thieves trackers who used to steal their files (i witnessed a war between 2 famous private torrent tracker which one of them Claimed that the other one used to steal the their very fast Pre-Time releases because they had a very fast scene Access.

some of scene Groups hated each other so much (we used to read NFO files which attached to every scene release) and there is a continues race between them since very very long time, when a release group release their Game, Movie or whatever like TC/TS Movies versions so it's over NO other scene group can release that game, movie tv show ..ect again unless there's something wrong with the release and no fix file has ben released.

Again dear friend, this is a very interesting and helpful post!

Originally Posted by loukoumas

Again dear friend, this is a very interesting and helpful post!

thanks my friend
here's a Part 2 and 3 of the Story are coning up

i posted part 2 of the story

I didn't know all this!!!

Great Journey

Originally Posted by loukoumas

I didn't know all this!!!

yes Loukoma it's long story

Originally Posted by Helas

Great Journey

thanks Helas for visiting the Topic

Oh my dear friend you bring good old memories for me.

Originally Posted by KokoVANCO

Oh my dear friend you bring good old memories for me.

true it was amazing era
the bad thing was that only very few torrents were freeleech but the good thing there were hundreds of leechers every day in every tracker