8,000 Release Warez Scene Group Calls it Quits

October 27, 2009, by enigmax 6

Warez-scene group ViRiLiTY, responsible for an estimated 8,000 commercial software releases and keygens, has announced its self-imposed retirement.

ViRiLiTY, one of more prolific Scene release groups, has announced that it will crack and release no more software.

The group, believed to have released around 8,000 software titles in the last 7 years, are said to have voluntarily brought down the final curtain on their own ‘careers’.

Thanking all those who have supported them since 2002, ViRiLiTY has issued a not-too-sincere apology to all the software developers who were “defeated” by the group, while giving them permission to relax, “since the real competition is now gone.”

The group’s swan song was a keygen for Ashampoo’s Core Tuner.

6 Comments

PuKaS
Oct 27, 2009, 14:01
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Yeah right.
So one admin quits, a couple of couriers lose a couple sites, a bunch of crackers lose a couple sites (they all work for multiple groups), and MAYBE the other admin closes their home ftp (unlikely).
Killing a scene name means nothing. Razor1911, FLT have come back so many times under so many different configurations. Even a 0-day group like -EAT takes some years off and resurges under new people.
It’s news, for sure, but to be taken with a grain of salt.
It’s usually just one person’s announcement of their own retirement, without respect to the wishes of the other participants, feeling somehow they have “the power” over a scene name.