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Found internal Apple memos about Apple II copy protection

Ben Vandermeer, an Apple enthusiast in Seattle, was at a Goodwill thrift store when he discovered a stack of Apple’s internal memos from 1979 detailing “Software Security from Apples Friends and Enemies” (SSAFE), a form of digital-rights management (DRM) that Apple was developing. Writes Vandermeer: This was a proposal to bring disk copy protection in-house […]