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語源

A leet form of wares, as a contraction of software.

発音

• IPA^(key): /wɛɹz/, (まれに) /wɑːɹɛz/
• 韻: -ɛə(ɹ)z
• 異形同音異義語: wares, wears, where's (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

名詞

warez (usually uncountable, 複数形 warez)

1. (Internet slang, leetspeak, dated) Software that is illegally obtained or distributed.
   • 1997 April 1, David McCandless, “Warez Wars”, in Wired‎^[1], ISSN 1059-1028:

     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.

   • 1999 April, T. Liam McDonald, “WaReZ the Logic?”, in Maximum PC, ISSN 1522-4279, page 41:

     Too many gamers see nothing wrong with downloading “warez” (usually pronounced “wares,” but also “wah-rez”), retail software products that have been “ripped” to make them smaller and remove copy protection.

   • 2012, Eric Diehl, Securing Digital Video […] , Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 16:

     Warez appeared in the 1980s with the advent of Bulletin Board Systems.

動詞

warez (三人称単数 現在形 warezes, 現在分詞 warezing, 過去形および過去分詞形 warezed)

1. (Internet slang, leetspeak, dated) To obtain a copy of (software または other works of authorship) illegally.
   • 2002 June 7, John Lettice, “MS turns up heat on warezed WinXP copies”, in The Register‎^[2]:

     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.

   • 2004 November 12, Timothy Lord, “Warezed SoundForge Files In Windows Media Player”, in Slashdot‎^[3]:

     Warezed SoundForge Files In Windows Media Player [title]