NYU student Brian Sandro has a secret: he and his friends pirate hundreds of millions of dollars of Hollywood movies over the Internet. The Scene, the first program created specifically for the file sharing community, lets viewers experience chats, IM's, and Web cams right from Brian's desktop.
http://www.welcometothescene.com

I've been watching this as the episodes come out. It makes for a great time killer right before my classes. The description above says it all. I really don't have to say more about it. I've been enjoying it as I was always curious as to how piracy groups operate. Its the "reality tv" for the geek. Some give it bad reviews saying its too fake... but I've never been a member of a piracy group... so I wouldn't know. The acting could be a little better and it is very obvious in many parts that the whole thing is scripted. (scripted as in they know what they're going to say before anything happens... not automated.)

However, the tools they use are real. I've backed up plenty of dvds to date.. and I use some of the tools that they do in their videos. I do it legally of course... I don't trade them... I just like to have backups of my dvds... especially because I have had bad experience letting people borrow my dvds. They don't always come back in the same condition.

I will say this though... if you're going to download it... get the whole volume. You can download it many different ways... but I recommend the torrent. The speeds on it have been great. I'm redownloading the whole thing as I type this and my speeds are over 120kB/s. If you do download it and like it... please consider staying on the torrent as a seed. You can cap your upload.

http://www.welcometothescene.com/download.shtml

Anyway... just doing my part to distract you from things that are really important and giving you yet another way/reason to procrastinate.