Many thanks to our classmates and Professor Laine Nooney, for their invaluable analysis and feedback. In this project, we drew on many historical sources. We have provided links to those sources here for readers who wish to continue to learn about the history of microcomputing and software piracy, along with other interesting sources that may provide further insights on related topics.
Live the original experience
Read about games from this time period and make your own “purchases” based on information from original magazines in this project from our classmates.
https://mcbridemusings.github.io/AppleADay/
Academic Articles
Dahlstron, Dana et al. Piracy in the Ditigal Age. 2006.
http://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/csep590/06au/projects/digital-piracy.pdf
Driscoll, Kevin. Professional Work for Nothing: Software Commercialization and “An Open Letter to Hobbyists”. 2015
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/579616
Hesse, Carla. The rise of intellectual property, 700 b.c.–a.d. 2000: an idea in the balance. 2002.
http://www.amacad.org/publications/spring2002/hesse.pdf
Lin, Albert. Hacker/Pirate Interaction in the Computer Underground. 1995.
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/student-papers/fall95-papers/lin-pirate.html
Marshall, Patrick G. Software Piracy: Can the government help stop the drain on profits? 1993.
http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/document.php?id=cqresrre1993052100
Mihm, Mickey T. Software Piracy and the Personal Computer: Is the 1980 Software Copyright Act Effective?, 4 Computer L.J. 171 (1983)
http://repository.jmls.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1553&context=jitpl
Vee, Annette. Text, Speech, Machine: Metaphors for Computer Code in the Law. 2012.
http://computationalculture.net/article/text-speech-machine-metaphors-for-computer-code-in-the-law
Books
Levy, Steven. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution [part one]. 1984.
http://www.temarium.com/wordpress/wp-content/documentos/Levy_S-Hackers-Heroes-Computer-Revolution.pdf
History of the SPA
Archival Film and Interviews
From the Very Beginning … from My Vantage Point
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/500001025
Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age (1986) PBS Computer Hacking Documentary
https://tune.pk/video/1033981/hackers-wizards-of-the-electronic-age-1986-pbs-computer-hacking-documentary
Lee Felsenstein, Oral history
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102702231
Lee Felsenstein, interview about the first software pirate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6KkMAwxuq4
Len Shustek, Lee Felsenstein: The Homebrew Computer Club
http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/personal-computers/17/312/2311
Law
The Copyright Act of 1909
https://www.copyright.gov/history/1909act.pdf
The Copyright Act of 1976
https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92appa.pdf
H.R.6934 – Computer Software Copyright Act of 1980
https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/6934
Dowling v. United States, 473 U.S. 207 (1985)
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/473/207/
Computer Magazines
Archives of Computer Magazines
https://archive.org/details/computermagazines
Byte Magazine
https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine
https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-rescans
Compute!
https://archive.org/details/compute-magazine
Computist
https://archive.org/details/computist
Softalk
https://archive.org/details/softalkapple
Computer History
Renee Shelby’s first project exploring the history of hacking
http://www.softalkcodebreakers.com/
The Computer History Museum
http://www.computerhistory.org/
Wacky copy protection methods from the good old days, Tech Blog.
http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/08/26/wacky-copy-protection-methods-from-the-good-old-days/
A Pirate’s Life for Me, Part 1: Don’t Copy That Floppy!, The Digital Antiquarian.
http://www.filfre.net/2015/12/
Why History Needs Software Piracy, Technologizer.
http://www.technologizer.com/2012/01/23/why-history-needs-software-piracy/
Apple II Copy Protection, Big Mess O’ Wires
http://www.bigmessowires.com/2015/08/