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Warez Terminology | Dictionary | Explanation Warez refers primarily to copyrighted works, such as software, movies or music, pirated and traded in violation of copyright law. 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) and multiple "warez" (multiple pieces of software). 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 collection(s) and the term "wares" was apt. |
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