when i was 10 or so, an older friend introduced me to pirated software, and gave me a burned cd-r with some video games and 'warez' written on it in sharpie. i

when i was 10 or so, an older friend introduced me to pirated software, and gave me a burned cd-r with some video games and 'warez' written on it in sharpie. i asked my dad what 'wahr-ehz' was, and he told me it was a city in mexico. i was left slightly perplexed but assumed it had something to do with the provenance or distribution. it was at least five years before i figured out what it was supposed to mean.