Shane Pitman, leader of the warez group Razor 1911: life after prison

Re:Shane Pitman, leader of the warez group Razor 1911: life ... by narag on Friday March 10, 2023 @05:48PM (#35102347)

I was a member of Razor back in the day.

I vaguely remember an intrincate big ascii logo, always wondered what 1911 meant.

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Re:Shane Pitman, leader of the warez group Razor 1911: life ... by codezero on Friday March 10, 2023 @05:59PM (#35102467)

I don't think I even knew back then (didn't care!) but from Wikipedia it's interesting!

> "The group was founded as Razor 2992 by Doctor No, Insane TTM and Sector9 in Norway in October 1985 as a Commodore 64 software cracking group. Shortly after, they changed from 2992 to 1911 which translates to 777 in hexadecimal."

Next question might be what is 2992? My best guess is it's b00b in little endian hex?

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Re:Shane Pitman, leader of the warez group Razor 1911: life ... by mardifoufs on Friday March 10, 2023 @06:05PM (#35102533)

I always assumed it's a reference to the 1911 pistol... but it doesn't make a lot of sense when combined with razor haha.

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Re:Shane Pitman, leader of the warez group Razor 1911: life ... by codezero on Friday March 10, 2023 @06:08PM (#35102571)

Pretty sure I assumed the same thing at the time without asking :)

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