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.
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Warez
//wɛə(ɹ)z//
Synonyms for "warez"
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8 translations across 5 languages.
Finnish
1 entries- warettaa verb (copy illegally)
Georgian
1 entries- ვარეზი noun (software illegally obtained or distributed)
Japanese
4 entries- ワレズ noun (software illegally obtained or distributed)
- 割れ noun (software illegally obtained or distributed)
- 割れもの noun (software illegally obtained or distributed)
- 割る verb (copy illegally)
Polish
1 entries- warez noun (software illegally obtained or distributed)
Russian
1 entries- варез noun (software illegally obtained or distributed)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
Too many gamers see nothing wrong with downloading “warez” (usually pronounced “wares,” but also “wah-rez”), retail software products that have been “ripped” to make them smaller and remove copy protection.
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Warez appeared in the 1980s with the advent of Bulletin Board Systems.
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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.
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