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(Internet slang, leet, dated) Software that is illegally obtained or distributed.

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#1·Apr 26, 2026

(Internet slang, leet, dated) Software that is illegally obtained or distributed.

By the end of the day Mad Hatter, a ringleader of the software piracy group called the Inner Circle, will have poured 300 Mbytes of illegal “warez” onto the Internet.
Origin: The leetspeak form of wares, as a contraction of software. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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#2·Apr 26, 2026

(Internet slang, leet, dated) To obtain a copy of (software or other works of authorship) illegally.

Many of these keys are, obviously, being used by people who've warezed XP, but there's also a reasonably large number of software professionals and refuseniks who have used them even though they have a legitimately bought version of XP.
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