Warez groups are teams of individuals who have participated in the organized

unauthorized publication of films, music, or other media, as well as those who can
reverse engineer and crack the digital rights management (DRM) measures applied to
commercial software. This is a list of groups, both web-based and warez scene
groups, which have attained notoriety outside of their respective communities. A
plurality of warez groups operate within the so-called warez scene, though as of
2019 a large amount of software and game warez is now distributed first via the
web. Leaks of releases from warez groups operating within the "scene" still
constitute a large amount of warez shared globally. Between 2003 and 2009 there
were 3,164 active groups within the warez scene, with the majority of these groups
being active for no more than two months and with only a small fraction being
active for many years.[1] The warez scene is a very competitive and volatile
environment, largely a symptom of participation in its community being illegal in
most countries. Groups are generally not driven by profit, but by reputation.[2]
Contents

1 Groups
1.1 3DM
1.2 Automation
1.3 Centropy
1.4 CLASS
1.5 CODEX
1.6 CONSPIR4CY
1.7 DEViANCE
1.8 D-Bug
1.9 DrinkOrDie
1.10 Echelon
1.11 EViLiSO
1.12 FAiRLiGHT
1.13 Future Brain Inc.
1.14 Hoodlum
1.15 The Dream Team
1.16 The Humble Guys
1.17 HATRED
1.18 HYBRID
1.19 International Network of Crackers
1.20 Kalisto
1.21 maVen
1.22 Myth
1.23 PARADOX
1.24 Phrozen Crew
1.25 Pirates With Attitudes
1.26 Project X
1.27 PROPHET
1.28 Rabid Neurosis
1.29 Radium
1.30 Razor 1911
1.31 RELOADED
1.32 REVOLT
1.33 Risciso
1.34 SKIDROW
1.35 SKiDROW360
1.36 Steam Underground
1.37 STEAMPUNKS
1.38 Superior Art Creations
1.39 Tristar and Red Sector Incorporated
1.40 United Software Association
1.41 VACE
1.42 ViTALiTY
 2 See also
3 References

Groups
3DM
Main article: 3DM

3DM is a Chinese video game cracking group. Their founder and leader is reported to
be a woman using the pseudonym "Bird Sister" (simplified Chinese: ???; pinyin: S�
Feifei) but the identity or gender has never been confirmed. Unusual for piracy
groups, 3DM's members have public profiles on the social network Sina Weibo, and
use a blog to inform the public about their activities. Some members of 3DM have
previously been part of NETSHOW, a group which released Chinese language copies of
games using stolen cracks directly to warez scene FTP sites.

3DM were one of the first peer to peer file sharing groups to offer cracks for
games which utilized DRM produced by Denuvo. As newer versions of Denuvo DRM became
more challenging to reverse engineer, 3DM gave up trying to crack games with Denuvo
DRM.

In 2016 the group claimed that piracy of games produced by large developers and
publishers would be impossible in the coming years, due to the technological
challenges of reverse engineering and ultimately cracking the virtualization and
licensing schemes employed by new DRM solutions like Denuvo. One of the most
notable groups on the web at the time, they publicly announced a year hiatus from
developing cracks for games. Since returning in 2017, 3DM have only released games
which use Steam licensing, only releasing copies of better protected games which
include cracks made by other groups. This practice has been criticized by the
groups whose cracks were included in releases under the 3DM name.[3]