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  2. List of commercial video games released as freeware

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    The source code has also been released; the game is still being sold on CD, but the open source version contains the full game content. Boppin' 1994 2005 [29] Puzzle Amiga, DOS Apogee Software: Castle Infinity: 1996 2000 MMOG: Windows: Starwave: Castle of the Winds: 1989 1998 [30] Role-playing video game: Windows 3.x: Epic MegaGames: Caves of ...

  3. Windows 10 - Wikipedia

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    Shortly after the suit was reported on by the Seattle Times, Microsoft confirmed it was updating the GWX software once again to add more explicit options for opting out of a free Windows 10 upgrade; [366] [367] [364] the final notification was a full-screen pop-up window notifying users of the impending end of the free upgrade offer, and ...

  4. List of warez groups - Wikipedia

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    They were one of the earliest groups to successfully crack Windows Vista, which was supposed to be a difficult task based on changes Microsoft had made to the activation scheme for the software. PARADOX attracted attention from 2011 to 2012, as they published files for playing unauthorized copies of games on the Sony PlayStation 3 . [ 53 ]

  5. Product key - Wikipedia

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    Product key on a Proof of License Certificate of Authenticity for Windows Vista Home Premium. A product key, also known as a software key, serial key or activation key, is a specific software-based key for a computer program. It certifies that the copy of the program is original. Product keys consist of a series of numbers and/or letters.

  6. Keygen - Wikipedia

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    A software license is a legal instrument that governs the usage and distribution of computer software. [1] Often, such licenses are enforced by implementing in the software a product activation or digital rights management (DRM) mechanism, [2] seeking to prevent unauthorized use of the software by issuing a code sequence that must be entered into the application when prompted or stored in its ...

  7. Software cracking - Wikipedia

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    Software crack illustration. 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 ...

  8. Free-to-play - Wikipedia

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    Within free-to-play, the most important factor is the number of players that a game can keep continuously engaged, followed by how many compelling spending opportunities the game offers its players. With free games that include in-game purchases, two particularly important things occur: first, more people will try out the game since there is ...

  9. Abuse (video game) - Wikipedia

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    Abuse is a run and gun video game developed by Crack dot Com and published by Electronic Arts in North America and Origin Systems in Europe. It was released on February 29, 1996 for MS-DOS . A Mac OS port of the game was published by Bungie and released on March 5, 1997.