Since returning in 2017, 3DM have only released games which use Steam licensing, only releasing copies of better protected games which include cracks made by other groups. One of the most notable groups on the web at the time, they publicly announced a year hiatus from developing cracks for games. In 2016 the group claimed that piracy of games produced by large developers and publishers would be impossible in the coming years, due to the technological challenges of reverse engineering and ultimately cracking the virtualization and licensing schemes employed by new DRM solutions like Denuvo. As newer versions of Denuvo DRM became more challenging to reverse engineer, 3DM gave up trying to crack games with Denuvo DRM. Some members of 3DM have previously been part of NETSHOW (now known as ALI213), a group which released Chinese language copies of games using stolen cracks directly to warez scene FTP sites.ģDM were one of the first peer to peer file sharing groups to offer cracks for games which utilized DRM produced by Denuvo. Unusual for piracy groups, 3DM's members have public profiles on the social network Sina Weibo, and use a blog to inform the public about their activities. Their founder and leader is reported to be a woman using the pseudonym '不死鸟' (pinyin: bù sǐ niǎo meaning in English: Phoenix) but their identity or gender has never been confirmed. ģDM is a Chinese video game cracking group. Groups are generally not driven by profit, but by reputation.

The warez scene is a very competitive and volatile environment, largely a symptom of participation in its community being illegal in most countries. Between 20 there were 3,164 active groups within the warez scene, with the majority of these groups being active for no more than two months and with only a small fraction being active for many years. Leaks of releases from warez groups operating within the 'scene' still constitute a large amount of warez shared globally.

A plurality of warez groups operate within the so-called warez scene, though as of 2019 a large amount of software and game warez is now distributed first via the web. This is a list of groups, both web-based and warez scene groups, which have attained notoriety outside of their respective communities. Warez groups are teams of individuals who have participated in the organized unauthorized publication of films, music, or other media, as well as those who can reverse engineer and crack the digital rights management ( DRM) measures applied to commercial software.

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