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To: ISOMAN who wrote ()	4/30/1999 3:30:00 AM
From: cardcounter	Read Replies (2) of 539

ISOMAN, you're eleet!!! I know what an ISO is (at least in the wonderful world of software piracy). I'm sure this is not what your nick is in reference to, but my industry analysis project is forcing me to find a distraction (before what's left of my brain naws its way out of my over-caffienated head). So what is an ISO? In short, it's a CD image. ISO history (CD Images) In 1997 the prices of CD writing material became cheaper, this combined with easier access to high speed internet created a new niche market. Full versions of games were wanted and so the ISO scene was created. ISO's are CD images and because they contain the complete CD image they are extremely big. Just like the CD scene three years earlier some of the bigger groups created new sub-groups for this ISO scene. By 1998 the ISO scene had grown. Gone where the days groups would dupe each others titles on different sites and not even realise it. Also gone where multistandards in releases. The scene may have been called ISO because that was the original format people used to store the information with but by 1998 everyone had switched to the bin/cue format. Also strangely we discovered in 1998 that some big name rip groups couldn't hack it in this ISO scene. While some others who faired terrible in the rip scene flourished in with ISOs. Probably the biggest controversy in the ISO scene for this year was wether groups should rip out Direct X etc to fit the image onto a standard 74min CD or wether to leave it as a full 80+minutes (which required special CDs to burn properly). Where do I find a definitive source on ISO's? isonews.com disc-lamer Support the software companies! If you enjoy using a program, consider buying it! Someone has to make it worth the programmer's effort to keep up the high standards. They made it, so they DESERVE it!

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