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Humanitarian Value of Warez Piracy
If "Warez" is considered a humanitarian distribution of intellectual material, especially to impoverished peoples, its "value" (in losses to the western economy) is many times greater than most sources of food and intellectual/medical aid. The current values by BSA for non-entertainment "Warez Piracy" are OVER HALF the global value of humanitarian aid from ALL SOURCES.
The global estimates for "Warez Piracy" by BSA.Org for non-entertainment software only are listed in the table at SHIP.BAYWORDS.COM with comparisons to global humanitarian aid, the western educational systems, and various other budgets which are all pegged to a standard increase for many years. The docs.google table is linked there, please include to the main page a section on this topic and the EU software patent issues and the International Criminal Court and World Court cases regarding human rights and intellectual freedoms versus these policy claims. Graph Image of Data ... FULL DATA SHEET and I'll hesitate at copying the source data table even though it is clean and public sources due to its size, fully referenced?
Policy Implications
Though "Cracking" is defined as the process of analysis and analytic reverse or operative modeling of a system, typically an encryption or cypher, (where "hacking" is the modification resulting from such an understanding), the historical definitions, especially with regard to the economic or intellectual motivations, relate on legal basis to the derogatory terms "Cracker" as Cracker_(pejorative) and Pirate with significant adverse legal implications.
The American Department of Justice Civil Rights Division[1] and United States Secret Service[2] have determined that the reference to individuals related to the non-commerce distribution or economically unbiased dissemination of intellectual materials as "Software cracker" (Cracker_(pejorative)) or "pirate" is both bigotry and a slanderous reference to these individuals. These references, especially published or in court filings, to the distribution of warez, linguistically derived from "Wares" or marketable items typically pedaled by lesser merchants, has been found not only to be derogatory to the individuals, especially in the American Federal Court cases, but also a higher crime than the majority of claimed acts of economic sabotage purported by the various institutions or large corporations with distinctly commercial motivations.
68.9.69.82 (talk) 22:50, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
warez sites, Google and malware
I believe there should be a section talking about how nowadays most sites that are returned when someone tries to search for warez on Google will attempt to install malicious programs, or provide bogus files, or be paid sites (or is it not really like that?)--TiagoTiago (talk) 02:10, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
- That's more of a subject of spyware. The warez component has very little to do with it, as it is common across porn, warez, video game, and gambling sites.Rurik (talk) 16:06, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
Phaze
This page is the destination for the redirected word "Phaze". The word isn't contained in the body of the article that I could find, and I was actually looking for a discussion of the Piers Anthony science fiction/fantasy world of Phaze, from the book "Blue Adept". Thank You. 71.216.157.222 (talk) 20:22, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
- The page that needs to be edited is the actual Phaze article. I've changed the redirection to Blue Adept so it should be fixed. In the future, you can see and edit the redirection by following it, and then clicking in the line below the article's title that states "(Redirected from XYZ)". Rurik (talk) 02:51, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
Grammar error?
"It indexes the warez & gives links to the pages where the download links are available. These often contain massive advertisement and may contain spyware and trojans. They often just infinitely redirect users to other sites." That sentence is messed up!
- Good eye, that's an atrocious section that has been there since 2007. I just reworded it and I hope it cleared it up. Rurik (talk) 01:35, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
Pronunciation?
There's currently no pronunciation listed. I've always pronounced it "Where - ez", but it seems likely that some people would pronounce it the same as "wears".Korin43 (talk) 00:55, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
- There used to be one, but it was removed awhile back. I see no reason not to put it back in, and will do so now. Rurik (talk) 21:48, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
- Um...how the hell is Juárez pronounced in English, anyway? WTF. I'm confused. D: Paperxcrip (talk) 02:04, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
- Two syllables: war - ez Rurik (talk) 04:37, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
- Can't we come up with a better example than "Juárez".? --87.57.56.236 (talk) 00:30, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
- Um...how the hell is Juárez pronounced in English, anyway? WTF. I'm confused. D: Paperxcrip (talk) 02:04, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
"warez" as adjective?
Under "etymology" the article asserts that "warez" is also used as an adjective "Do you know any good warez sites?" but judging from this sentence alone an interpretation as open compound noun seems more likely to me. If indeed it is an adjective here, "warez" and "sites" would have to be stressed about equally, while in a compound noun the stress would be on the last word. Can someone please check this? – Telofy (talk) 06:59, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
- I'd say that the word serves as a noun adjunct in the sentence, but I'm not going to change anything since I can't be bothered to read up on all 'em pretty wikipedia rules. 81.233.211.87 (talk) 22:46, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
Edit request from 71.94.158.203, 8 June 2010
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I want WiiBrew's Policy against warez to be added to the "see also" section of the article to show that some websites don't allow warez.
71.94.158.203 (talk) 01:58, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
Not done: Already mentioned under the legalities section. Could be used as a source, not a "see also". SpigotMap 12:58, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
Parsing fail
"or as an adjective "Do you know any good warez sites?""
That is no adjective it a part of a compound. 'warez sites' is a compund noun!
94.9.44.100 (talk) 22:29, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
- Not really; it's both. You can analyze it as a compound noun, especially since it's a commonly repeated usage, but it's not a construction that, if taken apart, really changes in meaning or function. Warez is modifying a noun. If you take it out, sites is still valid and means the same (but more general) thing it did with the modifier. Who is like God? (talk) 04:25, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
Talk Page References
The main reason for software piracy
Price - the average teenager or minimum wage worker can't afford the full retail price on most programs. For example, Maya currently costs about $3500. Adobe CS5 costs about $1600. Products like these are beyond the means of many people.
The software industry needs to realize this. Hobbyists should be given a significant discount. Those who make money with a program should pay full retail price. Everyone else should pay what they can.
The alternative is P2P or services like Rapidshare and the publishers make no money at all.173.58.64.64 (talk)