noahtheduke

take data in change it push it out

cis - straight - white - 30 or 40 years old
clojure programmer
living in the shadow of grief


nothing remains forever empty


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roughly 20 years ago, i watched a live action web series, a "tv show" but made by nerds and uploaded to the internet in mp4 or quicktime or whatever format we were using back then. i'm searching for it now and cannot find it (cf popular post about how google sucks now).

the show was about the crackers and hackers and leakers who got early access to music and movies and released them online, while trying to dodge the feds. the format for each episode was a view of someone's desktop screen and their IRC-equivalent chat windows as they typed messages to each other. in the corner of the screen was a live feed camera of them sitting at their computer, like twitch but with the camera angle usually being from somewhere else in the room.

i remember there being like 8-10 episodes and all but the final one were this way: irc chats between the person we were following for that episode and their compatriots, and a nearly static image of them sitting at their computer, fake typing. and then the final one had some handheld camera stuff, some bad acting, and a finale i don't actually remember watching.

anyone remember this?

EDIT: Thank you @nirebryce for finding it! https://archive.org/search?query=welcome+to+the+scene


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in reply to @noahtheduke's post:

this it? https://archive.org/search?query=welcome+to+the+scene

Breadcrumbs:

(in case they help anyone else have this terrible superpower)

  1. google web series about hackers and pirates that had videos of irc
  2. google homemade web series about hackers and pirates that had videos of irc
  3. -> https://news.slashdot.org/story/05/03/17/1322246/tv-show-about-the-scene
  4. -> http://www.welcometothescene.com/ (page long gone)
  5. -> wayback search http://www.welcometothescene.com/
  6. -> see it exists but the download links are probably dead, confirm it's what I probably am looking for
  7. -> search archive itself for "welcome to the scene"

fuck yeah, thank you. i tried "web tv show about leaking", "web series about torrenting", "web tv show people typing -best -2023 -2022 -news" etc lmao. I bow to your superior searching skills.