copyparty

noun

Etymology

From copy + party.

  1. derived from партия
  2. derived from partire
  3. derived from partir — “to divide, separate
  4. derived from partie
  5. derived from partie
  6. inherited from party
  7. compounded as copyparty — “copy + party

Definitions

  1. An event where people meet to swap software (often pirated copies of commercial…

    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.
    • 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 […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for copyparty. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA