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The Warez scene, often referred to as The Scene, [ 1] is a worldwide, underground, organized network of pirate groups specializing in obtaining and illegally releasing digital media for free before their official sale date. [ 2] The Scene distributes all forms of digital media, including computer games, movies, TV shows, music, and pornography ...
Warez groups are teams of individuals who have participated in the organized unauthorized publication of films, music, or other media, as well as those who can reverse engineer and crack the digital rights management ( DRM) measures applied to commercial software. This is a list of groups, both web -based and warez scene groups, which have ...
The term warez,which is intended to be pronounced like the word "wares" (/ˈwɛərz/), was coined in the 1990s;[5]its origin is with an unknown member of an underground computing circle,[citation needed]but has since become commonplace among Internet users and the mass media.
Software cracking (known as "breaking" mostly in the 1980s [ 1]) is an act of removing copy protection from a software. [ 2] Copy protection can be removed by applying a specific crack. A crack can mean any tool that enables breaking software protection, a stolen product key, or guessed password. Cracking software generally involves ...
Insane TTM. Sector9. Website. razor1911.com. Razor 1911 ( RZR) is a warez and demogroup founded in Norway, 1985. It was the first ever such group to be initially founded exclusively as a demogroup, before moving into warez in 1987. [ 1] According to the US Justice Department, Razor 1911 is the oldest software cracking group that is still active ...
PARADOX ( PDX) is a warez – demogroup; an anonymous group of software engineers that devise ways to defeat software and video game licensing protections, a process known as cracking, which is illegal in most jurisdictions. They distribute cracks (software patches), keygens (key generators), and pre-cracked versions of entire programs.
Keygen. A key generator ( key-gen) is a computer program that generates a product licensing key, such as a serial number, necessary to activate for use of a software application. Keygens may be legitimately distributed by software manufacturers for licensing software in commercial environments where software has been licensed in bulk for an ...
WinZip 1.0 was released in April 1991 as a Graphical User Interface (GUI) front-end for PKZIP. [5]Former WinZip icon. From version 6.0 until version 9.0, registered users could download the newest versions of the software, enter their original registration information or install over the top of their existing registered version, and thereby obtain a free upgrade.