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The AOL Underground podcast has a 3-part interview series with Oakleez of RNS & UMA.
The second episode covers his discovery of the mp3 scene and how he first got involved with RNS.
Listen here to episode 2 and find the whole series at AOL Underground.
A documentary based on Stephen Witt's excellent book "How Music Got Free" has now been released and features interviews with many key players in the mp3 scene, particularly RNS.
Watch the trailer and stream the whole documentary on Paramount+.
Stephen's book is also a great read for anyone interested in the history of the scene, the inner-workings of groups such as RNS, and the arrests of 2009.
The new RIAA Council (who have attempted to usurp the existing MP3 Council) issued a nice summary of the scene to date with the 2013 ruleset:
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Dear MP3 scene,
For much too long have we been looked down upon as being thoroughly inconsistent alongside highly retarded in what are known as our releasing standards. Now time as finally come for us to bid farewell to our collective ruling inability and embrace what shall forever be known as the most brilliant polished set of MP3 scene rules to ever see the ...
Mergers and splits have always been commonplace within the warez scene; discontent members leaving one group to form another or release groups combining forces under a new name.
With the exponential increase of new release groups forming in 1998, keeping track of mergers/splits became a difficult job. As part of our ongoing archiving, we've been attempting to create an accurate document of these events in the form of a timeline.
This is still very much a work-in-progress and many minor groups are still missing, but think of this ...
A year and a half after first launching MP3Scene we are extremely proud to present version 2 of the site.
We had a tremendous first year, amassing an incredible archive of files, nfos, images and more, thanks to many contributors who have reached out to help our cause. When we first launched this site we were just a few friends scraping together files that we had collected over many years. We were forced to make certain compromises in order to launch, sacrificing features that we would have liked to include ...