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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

Among the warez groups targeted are RiSCISO, Myth, TDA, LND, Goodfellaz, Hoodlum, Vengeance, Centropy, Wasted Time, Paranoid, Corrupt, Gamerz, AdmitONE, Hellbound, KGS, BBX, KHG, NOX, NFR, CDZ, TUN and BHP.

FBI: RAID NETS WEB PIRATES CHATSWORTH MAN, 3 MORE ARRESTED

This Trojan horse is a very low threat to Palm users who are sensible enough to avoid warez mailing lists and do not download pirated software.

Security Supplement

However, if the cost of the software is not close to the consumer's reservation price--the willingness-to-pay--then the warez vendor will get the sale.

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

According to Customs, the first phase of the investigation focused on a warez group known as DrinkOrDie, considered to be one of the largest and most well known in the warez community.

Law enforcement targets warez sites. (Tech Talk)

html> (describing the Recording Industry Association of America's civil action against a music software company for contributory copyright infringement); Warez Chatters Busted: Piracy, WIRED NEWS, Nov.

What the publisher can teach the patient: intellectual property and privacy in an era of trusted privication

So-called warez groups, at first operating openly, were competing to "release" music first and offer the widest assortment.

Technologies of piracy? Exploring the interplay between commercialism and idealism in the development of MP3 and DivX

The digital goods freely available from warez groups are enclosed again, becoming a valued resource via a monetary mechanism.