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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Do you remember Lotus 1-2-3 when it was sold on floppy disk with DRM? I do. And it was a hellish nightmare. If the hard drive died, you could not them reinstall it on another computer as you had to uninstall it so it could write back to the floppy disk. If there was a problem when the uninstaller wrote on the floppy disk, you had a problem. And in some cases, the DRM caused a problem with doing hard drive backups. So really, it was just a nightmare. And considering how much it cast, it wasn't worth the hassle.
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Yes, I remember Lotus 1-2-3. Anyone with a binary editor (MS-Dos came with debug.com) and a little knowledge could edit the machine code and flip one bit and Walla! DRM disabled!
That being said, the federal government put a moratorium on the purchase of any copy protected software, and SuperCalc became an instant success. Lotus soon changed their tune and published a non copy protected version, but was never able to recover. They were eventually bought by IBM.