Razor 1911

   

Razor 1911 is a warez and demo group, with a history much like that of Fairlight. According to the computer crime division of the United States Department of Justice, Razor 1911 is the "oldest game software piracy ring on the internet (http://www.cybercrime.gov/pitmanSent.htm)".

The group was originally founded as Razor 2992 founded by Doctor No, Insane TTM and Sector9 in October 1985 as a Commodore 64 software cracking group. Shortly after they changed from 2992 to 1911 as an internal jab to the lamers in the scene. "1911" translates to $777 in the hexadecimal numeral system.

Between 1987-1988 the group began to shy away from the Commodore 64 and migrated to a new hardware platform, coding demos and cracking games for the Amiga PC. In the very early 1990s Razor 1911 made the natural scene transition over to the IBM PC, foremost as a cracking group, while continuing to release brilliant cracktro loaders, demos and music.

The former leader of Razor 1911, Shane E. Pitman, who went by the pseudonym "Pitbull", was sentenced to 18 months in jail for "for conspiring to violate criminal copyright laws" as part of Operation Buccaneer.

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