Copyparty

Quick meaning: Copyparty is a noun meaning (demoscene) An event where people meet to swap software (often pirated copies of commercial releases), a forerunner of the demoparty.

Meaning

(demoscene) An event where people meet to swap software (often pirated copies of commercial releases), a forerunner of the demoparty.

Example Sentences

Extensive documentation on the history of copyparties and demoparties has been lovingly preserved by the demoscene itself.

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 […]

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.

Word Forms

• copyparties

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include democoder, demoscene, demo, megademo, demomaker, musicdisk.

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