A member of the hacker subculture called Release Groups or Warez Groups, mostly responsible for releasing and spreading (DRM removed) software, movies, music and ebooks. The term is also used to describe the members of the Demoscene: A computer art subculture, specialized in producing demos: non-interactive, audio-visual and real-time presentations on a computer. "Demosceners" origin from Release Groups.
He is not just a programmer, he is a Scener.
If you want to see real computer art, you have to look what the Sceners can do with Demos.
The hacker ethics are similar with the principles of the Sceners. They want information to be free.