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What is warez
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Warez
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"Warez" refers primarily to copyrighted works 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 mass media.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
"Warez" refers primarily to copyrighted works 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 mass media.
Types of warez
There is generally a distinction made between different sub-types of warez:
There is generally a distinction made between different sub-types of warez:
- Apps / Appz - Applications: Generally a retail version of a software package.
- Cracks / Crackz - Cracked applications: A modified executable or more (usually one) and/or a library (usually one) or more and/or a patch designed to turn a trial version of a software package into the full version and/or bypass anti-piracy protections.
- Games / Gamez - Games: This scene concentrates on both computer based games, and video game consoles, often released as ISOs or, for console games, ROMs.
- Moviez - Movies: Pirated movies can be released while still in theaters or from CDs/DVDs/HD-DVDs prior to the actual retail date.
- NoCD/NoDVD/FixedExe/Portable - A file modification that allows an installed program to be run without inserting the CD or DVD into the drive.
- TV-Rips - Television programs: With commercials edited out, television shows can be released within a few hours after airing. DVD Rips of television series fall under this sub-type.
- Subz - Subtitles: can be integrated in an English TV-Rip or Movie
- mp3 - MP3 audio: Pirated albums, singles, or other audio format usually obtained by ripping a CD or a radio broadcast and released in a compressed audio format such as MP3.
- E-Bookz/ebooks/e-books - Books: These include pirated ebooks, scanned books, scanned comics, cartoons etc.
- Scriptz - Scripts: These include pirated scripts coded by companies in PHP, ASP, and other languages. (such as vbulletin, invision power board, etc)
- Templates - Templates: These include pirated website templates coded by companies.
- DOX - Computer game add-ons: These include nocds, cracks, trainers, cheat codes etc.
- 0-day warez (pronounced as zero day warez sometimes as "0 days") - This refers to any copy written work that has been released the same day as the original product, or sometimes even before.
- MVids (Music videos) - Can be ripped from TV, HDTV and DVDs.
