May 15, 2003

warez

/weirz/ n.

Widely used in cracker subcultures to denote cracked version of commercial software, that is versions from which copy-protection has been stripped. Hackers recognize this term but don't use it themselves. See warez d00dz, courier, leech, elite.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:23 AM

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