Crack

Updated: 02/01/2021 by Computer Hope
Software piracy

Sometimes pluralized as "crackz," a crack is a computer program designed to bypass software protection. Crackz are commonly used to disable, or circumvent, digital rights mechanisms that enforce a commercial Copyright.

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A user who participates in software cracking may be called a cracker.

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