Manual Check Copy Protection
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Description
Originally, Sierra used digital copy protection schemes, like the infamous CPC disk copy protection. Later, they started to use included physical documents like manuals or other included documentation/extras for lookups. Miscellaneous information scattered throughout a manual all meant that photocopying (when possible) could be prohibitively expensive for the target customers and without a world-wide publicly available Internet, digital scans were almost unheard of. For the most part, copy protection methods were an effective low-tech solution to a high-tech problem.
These releases relied a manual or other documentation challenge for copy protection. These challenges were usually a question that could only be answered by checking the release's included manual or other included documents.
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