Kelly FitzGerald - Raytheon Technologies
Students: Spring 2025, unless noted otherwise, sessions will be virtual on Zoom.
Don't Copy That Floppy!: A History of Anti-cracking Controls in Early Video Games and Its Economic Impact
Apr 12, 2023
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Abstract
The roots of software piracy were propelled by the fledgling game market of the 1980's where the PC game supply chains were brittle and copying floppy disks was really easy. This talk will walk through the history and evolution anti-cracking controls as video games moved from bedroom game development to a 220 billion dollar industry.About the Speaker

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