warez

The demoscene grew out of the cracking/warez scene, so it's somewhat implied you should take a disassembler to it if you really want to figure out what a demo is doing.

Hosting a paid warez site from, say, Russia or China is much safer (from prosecution) than hosting a torrent tracker from Sweden.

They will try to keep competitors out, because they sell access to newsgroups for a lot of money so people can download warez.

We had a backdoor site on the BBS that we hosted early warez from ~1991 that was local to Tahoe.

I love this line on the download page: Information to warez groups: Since the source is open, it should be simple to turn the demo into a fully featured version.

This was a pretty good article, I'd love to read one (as similar as it might be) about warez crews.

E.g., it would only forbid personal attacks, credible threats of violence against other contributors and violations of the law (like committing warez to the repository).

Some guy hosting his warez collection for all his scene friends?

The demoscene and cracking/warez scene grew apart many decades ago.

I still remember when it was commonly used to refer to warez releases, but now it seems it's been used to refer more to exploits...

Not entirely on-topic, but I was looking through the newsgroup warez search-engines yesterday with friends and we were wondering - why doesn't anyone sue those sites?

> Warez scene release come with errors with regularity and those guys release stuff all the time and know what they are doing.

I wonder if someone is trading warez in exchange for installing a "free ad blocker!" (your addon converted to malware).

Wikipedia also has "Zero-day warez: copyrighted works that are pirated on the same day they are released", so the meaning of zero-day is different depending on the context.

Similarly, in the early AOL days, there were several "warez" distribution lists going around which had the pirated software directly attached to the emails (not links to external websites).

Here's why..." Then again, I am fortunate enough to work in a semi-open academic/clinical/research environment, where if you cross-your-heart-and-hope-to-die promise me that you won't misuse BitTorrent for warez or porn and that you truly have a business need for it, I'll entertain your request for a firewall/QoS exception.

Warez scene release come with errors with regularity and those guys release stuff all the time and know what they are doing.