The Scene
From PHWiki
The Scene is a community of people that are involved with organized underground piracy. It's a sort of web of trust, where copyrighted material is illegaly distributed between private FTP sites.
The people in the scene are organized in Release Groups. Various members in the groups handle different tasks, suppliers (obtains material), packers (packs the material for release), coders (cracks, tools etc), artwork (for NFOs, intros etc).
Often not even the nicknames of the individual members of the groups are known, which provides an additional layer of privacy, while at the same time lets the group as a whole take credit for their releases.
In some scenes Scene Charts are released to track how successful the various groups are. Both the GBC and GBA scenes have had scene charts released pretty regularly.
Each specific scene has its own standards and policies for how releases are compressed, packed and distributed, and during which circumstances they should be nuked. Some of these standards harken back to the days when the scene was on BBS and the technical circumstances back then.
