Phrozen Crew

The Phrozen Crew (PC) is a group of computer software crackers.
Formation
Forest Crew, later changed to Frozen Crew, was founded in 1993 by Aphex Twin who recruited The Keyboard Caper (tKC), who would eventually come to revive it as Phrozen Crew.
It was small to begin with, containing only four members: tKC (president), Psylocke (vice president ansi coder), Mutha (musician), and Lucido (graphics).
Timeline
In 1995, PC became more active and released their first crack, <tt>PC_CMNU5.ZIP</tt>.
In 1998 however, the rapid growth led to the Phrozen Crew falling out. Many members left, they almost disintegrated; only the core members remained active. Despite this, PC found its way back on track by late '98 with the hard work of ThE STaRDoGG CHaMPioN, tHATDUDE and others.
Phrozen Crew moved to #PC98. After PC members voted to stop distributing cracks via DCC in their channel, Taylor^ and Genesis`(Amadeus`) formed #Cracks EFnet, with the voiced fileservers who had worked in the PC channel and the eggdrop and miIRC scripts that Amadeus` had developed.
In 2004, Nitallica became the president and Baudie became the Vice President.<ref name="fortune" />
Oscar
Oscar is software license key database software. It is able to store hundreds of thousands of serial numbers for anyone to use with any version of a program at a particular time. It uses a special format for storing them, and people update the database using that type of file. Updates for serial database software can be found on many Internet sites. The most common usage of Oscar is for warez software. Phrozen Crew was one of the first warez groups use the Oscar format to release thousands of license keys at once.
The legitimate use is to be able to store legally bought license keys into the database and be able to retrieve them for later use or if the physical documentation is lost.
These were especially used during the late 1990s and the trend has slowed since then. Most warez releases today include an NFO file with a serial number, or a keygen, or a patch, removing the need to open up a serial number database.
The competing software (also free) with Oscar was Serials 2000, whose format was encrypted and incompatible with Oscar's and vice versa. Serials 2000 eventually became the more commonly used software, with many more websites offering updates, usually taken from keygens and NFOs.

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