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Copy Protection: N. A Class Of Methods For Preventing Incompetent Pirates From Stealing Software And Legitimate Customers From Using It.
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:copy protection: n. A class of methods for preventing incompetent
pirates from stealing software and legitimate customers from using
it. Considered silly.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
copy protection n. A class of methods for preventing incompetent pirates from stealing software and legitimate customers from using it.
Considered silly....
hackishness: n. The quality of being or involving a hack.
This term is considered mildly silly. Syn. {hackitude}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
crumb: n. Two binary digits; a {quad}. Larger than a {bit}, smaller than a {nybble}.
Considered silly. Syn. {tayste}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
jupiter: [IRC] vt. To kill an {IRC} {robot} or user and then take its place by adopting its {nick} so that it cannot reconnect.
Named after a particular IRC user who did this to NickServ, the robot in charge of preventing people from inadvertently using a nick claimed by another user....
lunatic fringe: [IBM] n. Customers who can be relied upon to accept release 1 versions of software.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
warez /weirz/ n. Widely used in cracker subcultures to denote cracked version of commercial software, that is versions from which copy-protection has been stripped.
Hackers recognize this term but don't use it themselves. See warez d00dz....
copybroke: /kop'ee-brohk/ adj. 1. [play on `copyright'] Used to describe an instance of a copy-protected program that has been `broken'
hat is, a copy with the copy-protection scheme disabled....
LDB: /l*'d*b/ [from the PDP-10 instruction set] vt.
To extract from the middle. "LDB me a slice of cake, please....
control-O: vi. "Stop talking." From the character used on some operating systems to abort output but allow the program to keep on running.
Generally means that you are not interested in hearing anything more from that person, at least on that topic...