he got booted for dealing warezed copies of Stardock applications. End of story.

Unfotunately it wasn't 'entirely' his...

What does warezed mean?

Warez comes from the actual word softWARE(Z). How it became to define software piracy, is anybody's guess?

Hey...I get it now!! SoftWARE!!! In 10 years of computing experience, I never knew that until now...

its not ware ez, its wares but warez

but..i couldnt tell you how it came to be used for piracy. my best guess is because it's 'c00l, |]u|]3$.

It came about used as a slang by kiddies on the old BBS systems.

Early to mid 80's we had Hackers, Crackers and Phreakers. Software Piracy was an eventuality the very first time someone handed someone else a floppy with a program on it and said "Check this out". Pirate Sites popped up very fast and by 1988 you could get anything if you knew someone who knew someone, or you happened to be an SysOP.

Then the kiddies jumped in where they could and some put up BBS systems and started using the term Warez. It took as most slang does in clicks and became commonly used.

Guess you could blame FIDO and all of us Hub sites of the 80's...

hehe

Frontdoor was a God send and Bluewave opened the doors...

RBBS was the FORD, WildCAT, PCBoard and Maximus CBCS were the Luxury rides.


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haha yeah I noticed right before scrolling down

A sysop

"A sysop" versus "AN sysop" is the dif.

Just pokin' a little after I saw Jafo's correction.

The onus is on me, though, for having nothing better to say.

The ignominy !

phreaking: /freek´ing/, n.
[from ‘phone phreak’]

1. The art and science of cracking the phone network (so as, for example, to make free long-distance calls).

2. By extension, security-cracking in any other context (especially, but not exclusively, on communications networks) (see cracking).

At one time phreaking was a semi-respectable activity among hackers there was a gentleman's agreement that phreaking as an intellectual game and a form of exploration was OK, but serious theft of services was taboo. There was significant crossover between the hacker community and the hard-core phone phreaks who ran semi-underground networks of their own through such media as the legendary TAP Newsletter. This ethos began to break down in the mid-1980s as wider dissemination of the techniques put them in the hands of less responsible phreaks. Around the same time, changes in the phone network made old-style technical ingenuity less effective as a way of hacking it, so phreaking came to depend more on overtly criminal acts such as stealing phone-card numbers. The crimes and punishments of gangs like the ‘414 group’ turned that game very ugly. A few old-time hackers still phreak casually just to keep their hand in, but most these days have hardly even heard of ‘blue boxes’ or any of the other paraphernalia of the great phreaks of yore.