warez

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1. InternetLeetdateduncountableusuallySoftware that is illegally obtained or distributed.

   Warez appeared in the 1980s with the advent of Bulletin Board Systems.

   2012, Eric Diehl, Securing Digital Video […] , Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 16

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   By the end of the day Mad Hatter, a ringleader of the software piracy group called the Inner Circle, will have poured 300 Mbytes of illegal “warez” onto the Internet.

   1997 April 1, David McCandless, “Warez Wars”, in Wired, →ISSN

   Too many gamers see nothing wrong with downloading “warez” (usually pronounced “wares,” but also “wah-rez”), retail software products that have been “ripped” to make them smaller and remove copy protection.

   1999 April, T. Liam McDonald, “WaReZ the Logic?”, in Maximum PC, →ISSN, page 41

   Warez is the term used for pirated software or the file-trading community that used the term.

   2022, Jon M. Garon, Parenting for the Digital Generation, page 181

present singular third person warezes · participle present warezing · participle past warezed · past warezed · alternative Internet juarez

1. InternetLeetdatedTo obtain a copy of (software or other works of authorship) illegally.

   Warezed SoundForge Files In Windows Media Player [title]

   2004 November 12, Timothy Lord, “Warezed SoundForge Files In Windows Media Player”, in Slashdot

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   Many of these keys are, obviously, being used by people who've warezed XP, but there's also a reasonably large number of software professionals and refuseniks who have used them even though they have a legitimately bought version of XP.

   2002 June 7, John Lettice, “MS turns up heat on warezed WinXP copies”, in The Register