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Since the inception of this site several years ago, we have become overly familiar with the idiosyncrasies of early scene releases. One particular observation is the disproportionate abundance of releases from 1999; far more than from 1998 and earlier.
Below is a breakdown of our release archive by years. It is also worth noting that many insignificant releases from 1999 have been intentionally excluded from our database in an attempt to somewhat 'curate' the content on offer. Without this filter, the number of releases from 1999 would be far greater ...
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This week we're proud to announce a range of significant upgrades and additional features to MP3 Scene.
The most significant is the new VIP scheme. With this, we aim to reward the contribution of particularly rare files, incentivising the ongoing support of the site. In conjunction with the launch of the scheme, we have also added several new sections to the site that are accessible to VIP's only. We don't want to spoil what all of these are but one is the official MP3 Scene Wiki, which ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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