Warez Identified and Broken Down

Welcome to the World of Free Warez

The word warez is intended as a plural of “ware”, short for computer software. Thus it is intended to be pronounced like the word wares, /ˈwɛərz/, but people commonly pronounced the e, /ˈwɑrɛz/, as in the English pronunciation of Juárez.

“Warez” refers primarily to copyrighted works traded in violation of copyright law. The term generally refers to illegal releases by organized groups, as opposed to file sharing between friends or large groups of people with similar interest using a darknet. It usually does not refer to commercial for-profit software counterfeiting. This term was initially coined by members of the various computer underground circles, but has since become commonplace among Internet users and the mass media.

Types of warez

There is generally a distinction made between different sub-types of warez. The unusual spellings shown here were commonly used as directory names within a compromised server, to organize the files rather than having them all thrown together in a single random collection. In many cases, the trailing ‘s’ at the end of a directory is substituted with a ‘z’ as a form of warez branding.

• 0-day warez (pronounced as zero day warez sometimes as “0 days”) – This refers to any copyrighted work that has been released the same day as the original product, or sometimes even before. It was considered a mark of skill among warez distro groups to crack and distribute a program on the same day of its commercial release.
• Apps – Applications: Generally a retail version of a software package.
• Cracks – Cracked applications: A modified executable or more (usually one) and/or a library (usually one) or more and/or a patch designed to turn a trial version of a software package into the full version and/or bypass anti-piracy protections.
• Dox – Computer game add-ons: These include nocds, cracks, trainers, cheat codes etc.
• EBooks (e-books) – Books: These include pirated eBooks, scanned books, scanned comics, etc.
• Games – Games: This scene concentrates on both computer based games, and video game consoles, often released as ISO or other format disk image.
• Keygens – KeyGen software are tools that replicate the registration/activation process of a genuine software product and generate the necessary keys to activate the software.
• Movies – Movies: Pirated movies, can be released while still in theaters or from CDs/DVDs/Blu-ray prior to the actual retail date.
• MP3s – MP3 audio: Pirated albums, singles, or other audio format usually obtained by ripping a CD or a radio broadcast and released in the compressed audio format MP3.
• MVids (Music videos) – Can be ripped from TV, HDTV and DVDs.
• NoCDs, NoDVDs, FixedExes – A file modification that allows an installed program to be run without inserting the CD or DVD into the drive.
• Portables – Similar to RIP, but refers to software or old/low size games (usually under 100 MB). The point of portable software is the fact that it can be placed on removable media (or any place on the local hard drive) and doesn’t need installing; usually it is compressed into one executable file, by using software like VMware ThinApp or MoleBox.
• RIPs – A variant of games/gamez that doesn’t have to be installed, a registry entry can be included as a .reg file. RIP games can be ripped of music and/or video files, or, for console games, ROMs, thus decreasing the size of the download. RIPs with nothing ripped out sometimes are referred to as DP (direct play).
• Scripts – Scripts: These include pirated commercial scripts (such as vBulletin, Invision Power Board, etc) coded by companies in PHP, ASP, and other languages.
• Subs – Subtitles: can be integrated in a TV-Rip or Movie.
• Serials – Refers to a collection of keys made available for the purpose of activating trial software, without payment.
• Templates – Templates: These include pirated commercial website templates coded by companies.
• TV-Rips – Television programs: Television shows or movies, usually with commercials edited out. Can be released within a few hours after airing. DVD Rips of television series fall under this sub-type.

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