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Wares

An informal word for goods for sale.

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There is a continuum of development from the Apple II crack screens of the early 1980s, to the C-64 and Amiga animated crack intros, and finally to the contemporary minimalistic NFO files of the warez scene to consider with different social and technical lenses.

Crack intros: piracy, creativity, and communication

You might not have even paid for the game software you're using; if you downloaded it from the 'net you would call it (and other illegally-obtained software) warez. If you attempt to enter systems or create viruses using programs that others have written (and that you patently don't understand), you're a skript kiddie.

L33t-sp34k

Steele argues that the hobbyist-collector, known as a "warez trader," is a more culpable non-commercial infringer than the individual who engages in non-commercial software copying, because the warez trader encourages and organizes further piracy.

The NET Act, fair use, and willfulness--is congress making a scarecrow of the law?

The Trojan horse (known as PalmOS/LibertyCrack or Palm Liberty.A) appears to have been distributed in the warez (plirated--software) Community as a crack for Liberty, an application to emulate a Nintendo Gameboy on a Palm PDA operating system.

Security Supplement

At a three-day event held in Switzerland by WIPO, Holleyman told members of the organization that as of late 1999, there were more than 2 million Web Sites which have downloadable files or links to pirated software, also known as "warez" in Internet terminology.(147) Thus, through BSA's studies, governments have a better idea of where to look for copyright abuse.

The computer piracy superhighway

For around $30-$60, payable via credit card, the warez vendor will burn the CD and deliver it to the customers doorstep.(2)

GLOBAL SOFTWARE PIRACY: YOU CAN'T GET BLOOD OUT OF A TURNIP

Usenet sites that exist solely for the swapping of copyrighted movies and software (so-called warez sites) have existed for ten years with nary a peep from the establishment.

The Technology Of Copyright Infringement

What would you do if you were a YNA (young Net artist) without a Sadie Cole or Jay Jopling to sell your warez? As e-commerce has become a viable method of exchange, wired artists, gallerists, and collectors are making deals from their desktops: Bid at more conventional auctions like http:// artnet.com; buy souvenirs from an electronic performance by artist Prema Murthy (http:// www.thing.net/~bindigrl/); or browse at the e-commerce shops of Net artists like John Simon or Olia Lialina (Simon has a boutique site to sell editions of his Every Icon website; Lialina built the groovy http://art.teleportacia.org/to sell her work and that of other YNAs).

eBay Watch

These so-called "zero-day warez" are the most highly prized commodity among Internet piracy groups.(37)