What if floppy discs had serial copy management?

Most of my alternate history threads are about scenarios where the divergence from real history happens in the pre-digital era. This has to do with being born in the wrong decade.

Floppy discs are all digital, and when copied correctly, are copied bit-for-bit. The first floppies were introduced before the C.D when digital recording was limited to data that is digital at its origin, nevertheless, the software making companies were worried about serial copies of their programs.

Here's what the M.C DoubleDef Disc Protector had to say (Official upload):

"You'll say I'll just make a copy for me and a friend / Then he'll make one and she'll make one and where will it end? One leads to another, then ten then more / And no one buys any discs from the store / And no one gets paid and they can't make more / The possé breaks up and that costs the store"

Had it been for serial copy management, then the answer to the question of where it will end would have been easy.
 
Had it been for serial copy management, then the answer to the question of where it will end would have been easy.
Like Japanese method of damage part of the data if not read directly from disk, no thanks and remember before cd and later flash revolution, floppy were a bless for students because were cheap and reusable.
 
Had it been for serial copy management, then the answer to the question of where it will end would have been easy.

Whatever scheme is attempted - hardware, software or a combination of the two - the geek community is going to circumvent it.
 
Whatever scheme is attempted - hardware, software or a combination of the two - the geek community is going to circumvent it.

Already Done, 1983
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about the only thing it wouldn't copy, were the schemes that relied on physical damage to the disk
 
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