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Encyclopedia: Warez

"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 term "piracy" is used in this article to refer to "unauthorized use of intellectual property".

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	(Italian)	Warez

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Deviance

Abnormality/differing from a norm. Commonly used in the following senses: Deviant behavior in social sciences statistical deviance DEViANCE, a known warez group...

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Fairlight (disambiguation)

The name Fairlight can mean one of the following: The Fairlight computer musical instrument FairLight, a demo group on Commodore 64 and Amiga, as well as a warez group. A computer game by Bo Jangeborg, published by The Edge. A suburb of Sydney in the Northern Beaches region...

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Cosmo Connor

COSMO CONNOR is german warez scene reporter (retired). from 1997 to 2001 he almost daily visited all major warez, crack, keygen, hacker resources and compiled the news on his website WWW.COSMOCON.DR.AG or KICKME.TO/COSMOCON in peak times he had about 50000 daily visitors which is a lot for a...

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FairLight

FairLight ( FLT ) is a warez and demos group involved in the Commodore demo scene and games releases... rumors, the raid occurred just before the warez group released the Hitman Contracts game. The game was... last massive warez related raid, Operation Buccaneer, was against DrinkOrDie in December 2001...

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The iSO News

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DrinkOrDie

DrinkOrDie ( DoD ) was an underground software cracking and trading (warez) Network during the... players in the warez scene by 2000. The DrinkOrDie network is considered criminal for copyright... Australia involving possible extradition to the USA. The DrinkOrDie archives, like most other warez...

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Topsite

Topsite is a term used by the warez community, now more commonly refered to simply as 'sites'. They are FTP servers used by groups of illegal software and media piracy groups and couriers for... of data. Topsites comprise the main distribution chain for the private warez community. Topsites...

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Alt.binaries.slack

" audience. Shortly after its creation in 1995, the newsgroup was targeted by warez traders, who tried... campaign to drive the warez traders out of the newsgroup. They then turned their resources and skills...

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FXP

. FXP is also frequently used for warez trafficking. FTP server software often disable FXP by default...

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Plural of virus

, not Latin. The spelling virii originates as a humorous usage on warez BBSes and among crackers in the... viruses. Computer professionals unaffiliated with the warez and cracker scenes generally reject it...

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