copyparty

copy +‎ party

• Audio (UK)

  (file)

copyparty (plural copyparties)

1. (demoscene) An event where people meet to swap software (often pirated copies of commercial releases), a forerunner of the demoparty.
   • 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 And Photographs By Franck Bohbot, “Power in Numbers”, in New York Times‎:

     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 offlabel uses of early home computers.