copyparty

English

Etymology

From copy +‎ party.

Pronunciation

• Audio (UK):

  (file)

Noun

copyparty (plural copyparties)

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

   Coordinate terms: demoparty, LAN party

   • 2008, Tara McPherson, Digital youth, innovation, and the unexpected, page 193:

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

   • 2015 July 16, Gideon Lewis-Kraus, Photographs By Franck Bohbot, “Power in Numbers”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 2021, Mark J. P. Wolf, Encyclopedia of Video Games:

     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 […]