a core conductor of copper -- or aluminum! Opposed to {light
pipe} or, say, a short-range microwave link.

:copy protection: /n./ A class of methods for preventing
incompetent pirates from stealing software and legitimate customers
from using it. Considered silly.

:copybroke: /kop'ee-brohk/ /adj./ 1. [play on `copyright']
Used to describe an instance of a copy-protected program that has
been `broken'; that is, a copy with the copy-protection scheme
disabled. Syn. {copywronged}. 2. Copy-protected software
which is unusable because of some bit-rot or bug that has confused
the anti-piracy check. See also {copy protection}.

:copyleft: /kop'ee-left/ /n./ [play on `copyright'] 1. The
copyright notice (`General Public License') carried by {GNU}
{EMACS} and other Free Software Foundation software, granting reuse
and reproduction rights to all comers (but see also {General
Public Virus}). 2. By extension, any copyright notice intended to
achieve similar aims.

:copywronged: /kop'ee-rongd/ /adj./ [play on `copyright']
Syn. for {copybroke}.

:core: /n./ Main storage or RAM. Dates from the days of
ferrite-core memory; now archaic as techspeak most places outside
IBM, but also still used in the Unix community and by old-time
hackers or those who would sound like them. Some derived idioms
are quite current; `in core', for example, means `in memory'
(as opposed to `on disk'), and both {core dump} and the `core