单词 | warez |
释义 | warezn. Computing slang. Illegal copies of commercial software, pornographic images, etc., distributed through computer bulletin boards or internet sites; a counterculture centred on the distribution of this software, and the online discussion of such activities. ΚΠ 1987 The Future of Simple BBS Boards… in comp.society.futures (Usenet newsgroup) 9 Nov. Many sysops today care mostly about how many ‘warez’ they can get out of their BBS. 1992 Houston Chron. (Nexis) 30 Mar. a9 ‘Hacker’ is a board game, a $19.95 tribute to the ‘phone phreaks’, ‘kodez kidz’ and ‘Warez d00ds’ who make up the class of computer Ninjas, hi tech's seamy underbelly. 1994 Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) (Nexis) 13 Dec. (A.M. Mag.) d1 Typically the boards are part of either a formal or informal national network, where software, called ‘warez’, is passed from pirate board to pirate board... Some of the pirates, called ‘warez couriers’, specialize in transporting software from larger, central boards to smaller, feeder boards. 1995 Focus Aug. 13/1 Copying and hacking may be worlds apart, but their perpetrators merge in a grey netherworld known as ‘warez’. A typically cryptic hacker coinage meaning ‘wars against the establishment’, warez manifests itself in obscure sites on the Internet and on bulletin boards. 2000 ‘Dr. K.’ Compl. Hacker's Handbk. xi. 149 If anyone is making money from selling warez, they could be prosecuted, fined a large amount of money and possibly sent to prison, not to mention possibly facing bankruptcy as a RICO charge (in America) strips them of all their assets. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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