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ELI5: How does the 'scene' community work? Where 
is the motivation? Where does the money come from?

There's got to be more than just respect up for grabs here- how does the scene community propel itself? How is it that you can get TV shows moments after they're done airing, without paying a cent? Who is getting paid for all this hard work- it can't be all just for fun? How about games or movies? I realize that Movies have a certain black-market value in under-developed countries, but still...
gpt
>  How is it that you can get TV shows moments after they're done airing, without paying a cent?

People recording TV through an input on their computer, encoding it in real-time with good CPUs, and immediately uploading it when the show's finished.

> Who is getting paid for all this hard work- it can't be all just for fun? 

Fun and competition. They compete to see who can do it the fastest and upload the most, because they like it. They also get access to the stuff their competitors upload, but these days it's about fun, they'd get access to that stuff anyway.

> How about games or movies?

With games there's even more competition, because you have to crack the anti-piracy measure. People are motivated by the challenge, and compete to see who can crack the protection first.

> Where does the money come from? 

What money? The money to pay for the FTP servers? They just put them together at home or pay a company for an ordinary dedicated server, the way people do for websites or videogame servers every day. None of the pirates are getting paid, if that's what you mean.

And because this is usually the question asked next...

> How can they release it before the release date?

Record labels send hundreds of albums out to reviewers in the months before release. Usually it's these that get leaked. Sometimes it's leaked by engineers or other studio employees, and sometimes it's even leaked by band members. 

Movie studios send out 'screener' copies to reviewers too. During Oscar voting, studios send screener copies of all their best movies to every member the Academy (5,835 members). These people, or their friends and kids, leak copies online. 

Videogames are often sent to stores weeks before the store is allowed to sell them. They're liked by an employee who has access to a copy. Other times the game is again, sent to reviewers.

Books are scanned and processed with optical character recognition software to become ebooks, and those are uploaded.