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| Term | Description |
|---|---|
| 0day | The bleeding edge of pirated releases. |
| ansi | A legacy method to draw in color within text terminal screens and files. |
| ascii | A legacy method to draw raw text art in terminal screens and files. |
| BBS | An extinct, text only landline-networked computer board to share files, messages and chat. |
| courier | A person who digitally delivers pirated software to a BBS or file site. |
| crack | A software modification that removes copy protection from a retail program. |
| dupe | A duplicate release, software that has previously been released to The Scene. |
| elite | The elite Scene is the small clique who obtain, crack and release major games and software applications. |
| FTP | A legacy internet protocol for sending and receiving files. |
| hack | The unorthodox manipulation or exploration of most things computer-related. |
| HPAV | An old term for a board, site or group that focus on underground texts such as hacking and phone phreaking. |
| demo, intro bbstro, cracktro |
An non-interactive computer program demostration to display or advertise art, music, code and often text. |
| keygen | A serial key generator, usually used to bypass licencing prompts in software. |
| NFO | A plaintext file containing information about the release and sometimes the release group. |
| nuke | A release that has been marked for deletion, usually as a duplicate or a violation of rules. |
| phreaking | The redundant and illegal art of landline telephone network exploitation to obtain free calls. |
| pixel art | Also known as bitmap or raster graphics, it is the creation of an artwork or image drawn using a mouse or pen. |
| pre | A release that has been made available. |
| race |
The competition between groups to put out a valid release of a new software title. Or the competition between individuals to be the first to upload a release to a file site. |
| release | An artifact from The Scene, be it software, games or some other related item. |
| releaser release group |
A group or a collective of people working together under a shared brand. |
| The Scene | A community of individuals and groups that participate online in a common activity. |
| scener | An individual within The Scene. |
| site | An online server used for file distribution. |
| topsite | An 'elite' online file distribution server that first obtain the releases. |
| warez | The product or the act of sharing of software, with any copy-protection or other restrictions removed. |
We never intentionally distribute viruses, trojans, or any form of malware.
Many scene intros and cracktros implement decompressing, self-decrypting, and self-modifying techniques, which, unfortunately, is also typical behavior for malware.
Analyzing suspicious behavior in software is never 100% accurate, and an over-sensitive heuristic scan can report false positive results. Some file programs and applications offered on Defacto2 do get flagged as a possible virus or trojan threat, but we do not believe they are dangerous.
But to be safe, scan any application software downloads with VirusTotal. Do not run the applications on your primary Windows system, but use a virtualized or emulated Windows or DOS legacy operating system.
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It enables you to use much of the website content with your projects.
The Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license applied to defacto2.net is a liberal implementation of copyright. You are free to use the original content as is or modify it to your needs.
The only requirement we impose is that you attribute, that is, give credit to defacto2.net for each piece of content you use. This attribution can either be placed on the content itself or distributed in a separate file within the content.
The license includes
But the license does not include
* In some countries, the copyright for screenshots of computer software are held by the software author or owner.
The file artifacts come from hundreds of online donations or are from various digital and physical collections. Ben Garrett programs the website, and a small anonymous volunteer team maintains it.
The core site gets built using the
Go programming language,
the Echo framework,
SQLBoiler,
and the following libraries and dependencies.
The Sceners who have assets used by this website: