Warez is a common computing and broader cultural term referring to pirated software (i.e. illegally copied, often after deactivation of anti-piracy measures)...
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The Warez scene, often referred to as The Scene, is a worldwide, underground, organized network of pirate groups specializing in obtaining and illegally...
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Warez groups are teams of individuals who have participated in the organized unauthorized publication of films, music, or other media, as well as those...
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A warez group is a tightly organised group of people involved in creating and/or distributing warez such as movies, music or software ("warez") in The...
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Standards in the warez scene are defined by groups of people who have been involved in its activities for several years and have established connections...
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In the warez scene, to nuke is to label content as "bad", for reasons which might include unusable software, bad audiovisual quality, virus-infected content...
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Echelon is a warez group which specializes in the illegal release and distribution of copyrighted console games, such as Dreamcast and PlayStation 2 ISO...
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Myth was a warez group, focused on cracking and ripping PC games. Besides ripped games, the group also released trainers and cracked updates for games...
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CLASS (CLS) was a notorious and prolific warez group that existed between January 1, 1997, and January 9, 2004. The group was the target of federal raids...
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Reloaded (stylised as RELOADED and RLD) is a warez group founded in June 2004 from the ex-members of DEViANCE. They released and cracked Spore 4 days...
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Topsite (redirect from Topsite (warez))
Topsite is a term used by the warez scene to refer to underground, highly secretive, high-speed FTP servers used by release groups and couriers for distribution...
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.nfo (category Warez)
or "information") is a filename extension for text files that accompany warez scene releases of pirated software or media. NFO files contain information...
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Leet (redirect from Warez text)
such an announcement may be seen as baseless hubris.[more detail needed] Warez (nominally /wɛərz/) is a plural shortening of "software", typically referring...
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PARADOX (PDX) is a warez–demogroup; an anonymous group of software engineers that devise ways to defeat software and video game licensing protections...
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Abandonware (redirect from Old warez)
Look up -ware in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Abandonware is a product, typically software, ignored by its owner and manufacturer, which can no longer...
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of the popular BitTorrent trackers, especially private trackers. List of warez groups Admin (9 February 2021). "Best Torrent sites | 10 Top Torrent sites...
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Kalisto is a console warez group established in March 1998, a subsidiary of Fairlight, which specializes in the release and distribution of PlayStation...
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discs. These trading circles became colloquially known as the Warez scene, with the term "warez" being an informal bastardization of "software". In the 1980s...
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uses existing game installers or pirated game files like releases from the warez scene and repacks them to a significantly smaller download size. The repacked...
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Software cracking (category Warez)
in one of their .nfo files that these type of cracks are not allowed for warez scene game releases. A nukewar has shown that the protection may not kick...
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Razor 1911 (category Warez groups)
Razor 1911 (RZR) is a warez and demogroup founded in Norway, 1985. It was the first ever such group to be initially founded exclusively as a demogroup...
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fact that during the 1990s, Avildsen was active in the software piracy warez scene. He went by the nickname The Krazy Little Punk and from 1995 lead...
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Twilight was a Dutch series of monthly warez CD-ROMs and DVDs. The series ran from early 1996 until June 16, 2001. In 2003, "B.G." (full name undisclosed)...
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programming construct for defining an object template Class (warez), a defunct group in the warez scene C++ classes, C++ language construct for defining an...
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sharing Trans-Pacific Partnership Video copy detection Video game piracy Warez Windows Genuine Advantage World Anti-Piracy Observatory (WAPO) Dowling v...
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(miniseries), a miniseries about unauthorised distribution of films and the warez scene The Scene, WGPR-TV Detroit dance show, October 1975 to December 1987...
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Rabid Neurosis (category Warez groups)
Rabid Neurosis (RNS) was an MP3 warez release organization which was founded in 1996, following in the footsteps of Compress 'Da Audio (CDA), the first...
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name of the organization that hosts the tournament, WAREZ, is an obvious play on the word warez, as SNK Playmore blames software piracy as one of the...
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Pirated movie release types (category Warez)
Beginning in 1998, feature films began to be released on the internet by warez groups prior to their theatrical release. These pirated versions usually...
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