History of “WAREZ”

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History of Warez

WorldMapper ”Royalties”

• General Introduction and Overview
• Table of Values (Normalized USD) with Synopsis

• MV

• Conditions of Organized Operation and False Need for Organization
• History of Control and Logistic Command Operation
• The Critical Situation, Methods by which to DieBold
• Current Positions of Parties Involved (”Where are They Now?”)
• Abstract Ramifications of the Staged “Scene”

This document discusses the various historical structures of what is now referred to as “Warez”, “Warez Scene” and related information disemination services and their dominant modes of operation. Additional insight is provided into the ramifications of these structures, their controlling entities, and derived political and systemic complications resulting from misled organized influences.

General Introduction:

During the Cold War, long before the advent of stored-media or digital technologies in the western world, various intelligence smuggling factions were notorious for delivering books and printed materials into intellectually hostile regions, such as the Soviet USSR. Now, in this “modern era” where a single console license for a patented civil engineering software application costs more than an entire city’s budget for an entire year, the sponsorship of content disemination by military and “IC” operations to deliver media to impoverished regions and related establishment of services such as “Warez Piracy” have obvious motivations.

Historicly, in the age when Shareware propogated freely and penetrated all boundaries with limited restrictions, quality products were recognised, forwarded, and rewarded with a donation of intellectual or operational assistance, and the freedom of information and intellectual pursuits were unrestricted, no less encouraged. I myself recall the surprising letter a friend recieved from an extremely remote localle, covered in transit and tarriffe stamps, including a short note of thanks, a bill of currency worth a few american cents, and a reference to how helpful the shareware / freeware program was to their community. The bill was worth the proportionate equivalent of 20 USD in their economy, but the stamps and letter packaging was worth 100x the value of the “suggested donation” alone, according to collectors at the time.

The value of intellectual freedom is understood by those who desire such, and the value of any other individual’s freedom is understood as a potential gain for oneself.

The value of restricting access to information and resources is only percieved as desirable by those who desire to explicitly exploit or undermine a society, and obviously serves no gains for the population at large.

Here is a normalized table of values to help elucidate the disunity between and across various economies.

TABLE OF VALUES:

(include adjusted income, value of food staple or loaf of bread, obvious city budget, and various other raw data..)

As indicated, the value of currency and economic variences between regions mark a distinct inavailability of patented materials and information from western holders. In short, the restrictions on distribution of basic knowledge and its implementation is preventative to its use or disemination in most non-western environments. Even the budget of an American metropolis can not afford the appropriate tools for their job, no less an indivdual small entity or educational venue, and the restrictions on the ability to add or draw in a certain manner due to patant imperialism is debilitating for any entity who desres to facilitate common gain.

This next table is a generalized comparison of prominant entities budget and valuation, in comparison to the purported non-value of unrestricted distribution of intellectual materials.

(dea budget, global narcotics industry, usa war contracts, bsa data, etc)

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Conditions of Operation:

What might be surprising in review, is the significant and notably explicit lack of high technology or competant mechanisms in the “Warez Scene”. In short, except for standard account management for FTP servers (historicly used for upload/download ratio enforcement, not security restriction) and some basic environment control (like using +i modes on IRC channels) there has been absolutely no use, nor need or interest, in the restriction of access by new individuals with high motivation from directly accessing or engaging communication with the critical individuals resposible for the analysis, fixing, and distribution of materiel. When the option of using “auto-distro” scripts on ftp servers was brought up in the mid 1990s with the intent of maximizing available bandwith and efficiency of distribution by automaticly forwarding completed files or packages, the concept wasstricken by the “leaders” of the various “Warez Organizatons”. Why is this? Throughout the 1980s BBS systems called eachother daily to cross populate new releases and mirror each other’s content. In the early 1990s, the American Federal Government aggressively pursued BBS operators and attacked many legitimate content distributors as responsible for user-uploaded content, rather than pursuing enforcement of available filtering mechanisms for a “Service Provider” later to be formalized in the legalities surrounding ISPs. Obviously, to guarantee an individual is responsible for distribution of restricted content, the various authorites mandated that human control over a transfer action be required, thus the need for a mouse or button be actuated by a human to allow easy exploitation by taxing authorities.

It was not until the mid 2000’s that distributed P2P tools re-emerged, but you will note that all are disallowed auto search and transfer mechanisms.

History of Control:

dea,dia,etc… ss bullhit

The Critical Situation:

Now, given that the logistic need for infrmation disemination is substantiated and the incoherence of structured restrictions elucidated, one must note the obvious inconsistancy of the current logistic environment globally.

If counter intelligance operations are intent on making sure tools are available to the populus in order to undermine or destabilize organized systems of governance and suppression, there must be some target or intended resolve in the current legal and logistic scenereo.

Is it a fight against corruption? Destabilization and removal of authority? Simple propogation of intellectual materials to individuals and regions (suppressed)? Some other abstract and inconcievable solution based on computed scientific analysis?

Let’s examine some historical components in the timeline:

(target shamos)

ship @ April 18, 2008