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Re:Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full by jasonfarnon on Monday August 17, 2026 @08:43PM (#49339705)
No. That cracking group would have known a priori the phone call was a pretense, because id was very unlikely to press distinct CDs. So they could focus on conventional cracking techniques.
Re:Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full by KellyCriterion on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @10:52AM (#49346499)
Wouldnt you need different master-CDs for doing that, as AFAIR when pressing CDs commercially, you usually have exactly only one master?

(maybe a different one per geo-locatoin, if at all)