Pirate TV Show: Welcome To The Scene Revisited
In 2004, a series of short TV-style shows started to hit the web dramatizing the ‘Warez Scene’. ‘Welcome to the Scene’ was downloaded hundreds of thousands of times.
A blast from the past just popped up in my feeds today, so I thought i’d share.
Six years ago (wow, has it really been that long?) in a time before YouTube, a company called Jun Group created a new style of online TV series, which for pirates and geeks in general proved pretty entertaining, in an easily-pleased kind of way….
Welcome To The Scene ran for months and attempted to dramatize The Scene, the ‘place’ (for want of a better phrase) at the top of the so-called ‘piracy pyramid’ from where most illicit material cascades down to P2P networks.
The show ignited a fair bit of controversy within P2P circles and even attracted its own parody show called Welcome To Teh Scene (see bottom of this post).
The official website can be found here, all episodes here and episodes up to 15 are available on Veoh too – we’ve embedded episode one below to see if you like it – just in case you’re twiddling your thumbs today with nothing better to do ;)
Watch Welcome to the Scene – Episode 1 in Entertainment | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com
Welcome To Teh Scene (parody)
Can someone please reupload the Veoh video on Youtube or somewhere else The Video stopped at like 2:00
lol @ the Parody ‘..got on my box’ a Computer is not a box it is a complex piece of machinery :(
I cant believe he passed her up, for the Group!
I need to get out more lol
I didnt even get the full Preview lol :(
You can watch the episodes streaming by following the ‘view’ links on this page
http://www.technutopia.com/videos/thescene/
Well, S01 is really awesome. DEFINITLY WORTH WATCHING! S02 seems a little meh, but I’ve only seen E01, so not sure.
The first one or two episodes of The Scene when it’s just Brian are terribly boring (I probably say him type “wait a moment” atleast 3 dozen times since he can’t seem to multitask at first), but should be watched. It gets really interesting the more as you watch though (I’m at episode 9). Great show/series IMO, thanks for posting this :)
Anyone looking for episodes 10 & 11 can get them @
http://www.archive.org/details/the_scene_10
http://www.archive.org/details/the_scene_11
All the links on welcometothescene.com for those 2 episodes are dead.
I watched the parody before the actual show accidentally, the whole time I was thinking “This isn’t that good…”.
The Veoh one cuts out for me after a minute or two.
Please do not use Veoh, because the majority of the world can’t access it.