Scene Release
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A Scene Release is a pirated piece of software, game, movie, music album etc packaged for distribution on The Scene.
There are some commonalities between all types of scene releases but the requirements varies between different types of media.
Generally each scene release has it's own directory. In the directory, besides the release itself is also an NFO file with details. The actual data is often compressed with rar or zip. Big files like movies or ISOs are split into several files using rar. Sometimes a SFV file is included to verify the checksums of the files.
Parts of the release standards harken back to the days when warez were distributed over BBS and some files, like .diz, that were highly useful with the BBS software are included for legacy purposes but are often ignored by the FTP servers that are now used for distribution.
