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Copy Protection Wars: The Ingenious Schemes Of 1980s Software Before the era of always-online DRM and AI-powered anti-tamper software, the battle against software piracy was fought with cardboard, plastic, and clever manipulation of magnetic disk geometry. In the 1980s, developers faced a simple problem: floppy disks were incredibly easy to copy. Their solutions, however, were anything but simple. This was the “Copy Protection War,” an arms race between software houses and the burgeoning “cracker” scene that birthed the Demoscene and defined digital culture for a generation. ...