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The why?

For fame, for glory, to chase the adrenaline rush that comes with being the first in a race to release something everyone else is trying to do? To feel like you have reach over millions of people who will eventually download your release...

A few groups tie back to 'organised crime', in that they cut the releases back to DVDs for sale at markets for the less technologically literate. But I'd say by and large the people in 'the scene' are doing it for the love, whatever that love happens to be.



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