There is always a possibility that some newbie could turn out to be an undercover officer. One thing he points out is that it is hard to achieve ‘trust’ and it might take several months before a new member can be assumed trustworthy. Source also managed to get past the vetting process and eventually created his own Scene group to harvest content. After all, being hidden is a part of the job. The person has to make sure their online identity doesn’t get busted during the process, otherwise, they’ll get eliminated. To get associated with The Scene, one has to go through a vetting process. In general, people who are a part of the group can be referred to as a Scener. Soon after a release ends up of one of the topsites, it gets quickly shared on other topsites by people called traders/racers. There is some sort of a race going on where the groups compete to make the release first. The data is then acquired by ‘ release groups‘ who process it and transform it into a ‘ release‘ which could be provided to the viewers. For example, Topsites refers to highly-secretive and encrypted FTP servers, where terabytes of copyrighted material is hosted and can only be accessed by authorized users. Source talks about the different terminologies used by The Scene, some of which are already known.
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