copyparty
nounEtymology From copy + party.
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Computing, Demoscene, Engineering, Lifestyle, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences An event where people meet to swap software (often pirated copies of commercial releases), a forerunner of the demoparty.
- Extensive documentation on the history of copyparties and demoparties has been lovingly preserved by the demoscene itself.2008, Tara McPherson, Digital youth, innovation, and the unexpected, page 193:
- DreamHack began in 1994, in the basement of a nearby elementary school, as a small, local subvariant of what was then called a ‘‘copyparty’’ — pre-broadband occasions to share software or demonstrate flashy off-label uses of early home computers.2015 July 16, Gideon Lewis-Kraus, Photographs By Franck Bohbot, “Power in Numbers”, in New York Times:
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- In the mid-1980s, demoparties were also copyparties, where the first so called hot releases of cracked and trained games changed hands. However, illegal software copying later disappeared […]2021, Mark J. P. Wolf, Encyclopedia of Video Games: