Talk:Standard (warez)

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— JIP | Talk 05:00, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Can anyone add any information on who exactly sets these standards? What shadowy organisations are involved? -NeoThe1 08:26, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

It doesn't matter 'who' but only that 'it is'. Rules help the scene to flow. I for 1 am in favour of it

To me it's incredibly interesting to find out how centralised or decentralised the governing system is.NeoThe1 01:02, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

It's "the federation of releasing groups" and very loose as for who actually writes down the rules from revision to revision and organizes communication. What's important is that almost all major release groups sign, and the standards are golden. So it's not like there's a pyramid of syndicated crime or any sort of hierarchy, but more like independant countries and the the kyoto treaty. If there's any sort of nefarious influencing going on, it probably has more to do with top sites and enforcing these rules. By that I mean that many feel that the current nuke system is arbitrary and often not strong enough to encourage quality over speed. It's more efficient for a group to not test and to release as quickly as possible in order to get credit than it is to test first. So risking being nuked is deemed more less important than risking losing the race to release something first.--Trypsin 23:38, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Strange how a culture built on breaking the rules make up rules for itself. A scene rule you should add is that whenever there's an "I" in uppercase text it has to be lowercase. WTF is that about? 81.232.158.237 10:04, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

It probably has something to do with how "Iil and 1" appear on screen, lowercase i is easiest to read as i. 84.251.14.145 22:05, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

That's silly. For example, how could "i" in for "DEViANCE" be mistaken for a "1" even if it was called "DEVIANCE"? 81.232.158.237 12:25, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

You see, the warez scene dates all the way back to the 80s when such long namings and different charsets were limited in computers. It stays, you know. Many groups still even participate (which is quite obsolete nowadays) in the demoscene or supply their releases with cracktros, the most popular probably being Fairlight, and who even recently have won many times at the Assembly demo party, and such. --nlitement ^[talk] 23:35, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

I rather think it's because and uppercase "i" can look the same as a lowecase "L" -> IlIlIl vs. iLiLiL

"Nonetheless the introduction of MPEG-4 playback capabilities in standalone DVD players was a result of the huge amount of TDX compliant movie material available on the internet." ← This is extremely hard to prove. There is really no manufacturer would ever say anything like this. I'm sure many people think this, but there is no way to prove it.--Tatsh 17:27, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Just add "probably" somewhere to make it valid. 81.232.158.237 12:25, 4 August 2006 (UTC)