Warez
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Software that is illegally obtained or distributed. Internet, Leet, dated, uncountable, usually
"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."
- 1 To obtain a copy of (software or other works of authorship) illegally. Internet, Leet, dated
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
The leetspeak form of wares, as a contraction of software.
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