Talk:Warez group

Someone needs to put in some refs for the "most famous" and similar claims. Pcap ping 06:44, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

>The most notable group is the legendary Razor 1911.[citation needed]

If you consider the following quote applicable for the most notable/ledgendary, then here you go:

      Operation Buccaneer directly targeted release groups. One of the more famous groups
whose members were prosecuted as a result of the bust was called Razor1911. They have been
around since the early 1980's, when they gained fame cracking video games for the Commodore
64 computer system (“Razor 1911”). Razor1911 was referred to by the D.O.J as “the Oldest
Game Software Piracy Ring on the Internet.”

Source: http://people.uwec.edu/greener/TermPapers2/ChrisCortner-FinalRev-4-05-09.pdf

But I don't think it's very suitable. The original sentence isn't very neutral and differs in time. I think it will be hard to even find a quote. I suggest to rewrite it.

>Other famous groups include DrinkOrDie, Pirates With Attitude, Class, and Fairlight.

The fact they have a wikipedia page means they are famous/notable. I don't think you need to look for references for this. --Ondertitel (talk) 16:26, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Both the commodore 64 era & DOS era existed together, warez groups were more responsible for the trading of warez though BBS systems which used fidonet like networking, no relation to the internet at all, the creators of the internet came out publicly & said they were influenced by BBS users & the warez groups that traded software for these systems. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.217.212.227 (talk) 06:38, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

Different kind of release groups

I came across this here: https://opentrackers.org/where-pirated-content-comes-from/

Forms of piracy/filesharing outside of “The Scene” are often collectively referred to as P2P
Aside from the release groups in “The Scene”, there are many others that reside elsewhere:
• Release Groups “half way” between Scene and P2P
• Private Tracker Internal Release Groups
• Publicly Tracked Torrent Release Groups
• DDL Forum/Blog Release Groups
• Usenet/Newsgroup Release Groups
• DC++ Release Groups
..this content trickles down as well

Since these are becoming more noticeable nowadays, they should be mentioned in the article too. --Ondertitel (talk) 00:29, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

Summary Improvements

The summary should be improved to explicitly state the association of warez groups with multimedia piracy. As-is, one needs to either read linked articles or between the lines in Description. The article itself is also littered with jargon. 82.130.43.87 (talk) 19:40, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

tightly organised?

WRT "A warez group is a tightly organised group of people": In what way is the group tightly organized? What makes a group tightly organized? Maybe it is not tight at all? Maybe it's less than organized? Maybe it's just a group. ;) Stevebroshar (talk) 11:07, 9 December 2025 (UTC)