Warez refers primarily to copyrighted material traded in violation of copyright law. The term generally refers to illegal releases by organized groups, as opposed to peer-to-peer file sharing between friends or large groups of people with similar interest using a Darknet. It usually does not refer to commercial for-profit software counterfeiting. This term was initially coined by members of the various computer underground circles, but has since become commonplace among Internet users and the media.
The word "warez" was coined to indicate more than one piece of pirated software, as "software" is a non-count noun and users found it natural to use a count noun to differentiate between one "ware" (one piece of software [one program]) and multiple "warez" (multiple pieces of software [multiple programs]). Due to the relatively large amounts of time needed to transfer large files over slow telephone modems and bulletin board systems (BBSes), pirates would typically ask for one-for-one trades from other pirates. Hence, software pirates adopted a merchant-like attitude with their software collections and the term "wares" was apt.
2006-08-17 00:47:18
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answered by Devil M 5
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Warez refers primarily to copyrighted material traded in violation of copyright law. The term generally refers to illegal releases by organized groups, as opposed to peer-to-peer file sharing between friends or large groups of people with similar interest using a Darknet. It usually does not refer to commercial for-profit software counterfeiting. This term was initially coined by members of the various computer underground circles, but has since become commonplace among Internet users and the media.
The word "warez" was coined to indicate more than one piece of pirated software, as "software" is a non-count noun and users found it natural to use a count noun to differentiate between one "ware" (one piece of software [one program]) and multiple "warez" (multiple pieces of software [multiple programs]). Due to the relatively large amounts of time needed to transfer large files over slow telephone modems and bulletin board systems (BBSes), pirates would typically ask for one-for-one trades from other pirates. Hence, software pirates adopted a merchant-like attitude with their software collections and the term "wares" was apt.
Warez is used most commonly as a noun: "My neighbour downloaded 10 gigabytes of warez yesterday"; but can also be used as a verb: "The new Windows was warezed a month before the company officially released it". The collection of warez groups is referred to globally as the "warez scene" or more ambiguously "The Scene".
2006-08-17 00:49:07
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answered by Anonymous
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they are not down. they are purely less than a DDOS attack. the people responsible for the attack hasn't yet printed themself. even if the attack starter only once they hit 500k. So it ought to've been their present to W-BB. The professional statement from W-BB is: "It appears an attack of a few style which has been hammering both the IRC and the communicate board. All i am going to assert is that we (the staff) are operating to get to the bottom of this ASAP - yet at present there is not any time body on how lengthy. Please only bare with us even as we get Warez-BB back to its familiar extreme speed. i am going to assure you that the staff are right here, and are going each and every little thing they could to shop the area so as. all of us recognize there are alot of spamming doing on - all i am going to assert is only bare with us - we are banning each and every of the spammers and binning all their crappy posts. " so that you'll only ought to attend till the DDOS attack is over.
2016-11-05 00:11:52
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answered by ? 4
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Stolen commercial software distributed to others by trading
2006-08-17 00:43:10
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answered by Anonymous
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Illegal files that you can download... pretty much!
2006-08-17 00:42:36
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answered by Istiaque Choudhury, BEng (Hons) 4
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heheheh, ahh the old days...
2006-08-17 00:45:28
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answered by 006 6
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