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  2. Online piracy - Wikipedia

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    Online piracy has led to improvements into file sharing technology that has bettered information distribution as a whole. Additionally, pirating communities tend to model market trends well, as members of those communities tend to be early adopters.

  3. List of warez groups - Wikipedia

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    CONSPIR4CY (releasing mostly as CPY) is a warez group founded in 1999 in Italy. They rose in notoriety after releasing Rise of the Tomb Raider and Inside in August 2016 under the name of CONSPIR4CY, [19] though they resumed using the 'CPY' tag shortly thereafter with the release of their cracked copy of Doom in September 2016. [20]

  4. Legal aspects of file sharing - Wikipedia

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    In Germany, file sharing of copyrighted files, for example through peer-to-peer software like BitTorrent, is illegal. Internet service providers routinely transmit the identity of IP address owners to private lawyer firms who are then able to send "cease and desist" letters often demanding the offender to pay €1,000 fines or more.

  5. Copy protection - Wikipedia

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    Copy protection for computer software, especially for games, has been a long cat-and-mouse struggle between publishers and crackers.These were (and are) programmers who defeated copy protection on software as a hobby, add their alias to the title screen, and then distribute the "cracked" product to the network of warez BBSes or Internet sites that specialized in distributing unauthorized ...

  6. Torrent file - Wikipedia

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    In the BitTorrent file distribution system, a torrent file or meta-info file is a computer file that contains metadata about files and folders to be distributed, and usually also a list of the network locations of trackers, which are computers that help participants in the system find each other and form efficient distribution groups called swarms. [1]

  7. Legal issues with BitTorrent - Wikipedia

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    On 23 November 2005, the Motion Picture Association of America and Bram Cohen, the CEO of BitTorrent Inc., signed a deal to remove links to illegal content on the official BitTorrent website. Other notable search engines also voluntarily self-censored licensed content from their results, or became "content distribution"-only search engines.

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    If you don't have security software installed on your computer, you can select and install one by going to safety.aol.com. Run the Microsoft Update utility Microsoft often releases patches that fix security holes and help protect your computer.

  9. Warez scene - Wikipedia

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    The Warez Scene started emerging in the 1970s, used by predecessors of software cracking and reverse engineering groups. Their work was made available on privately run bulletin board systems (BBSes). [5]