stackyFACTSSony decided that the best way to stop unauthorized copying was to simply make the bottom of the disc violently blue. This quirky manufacturing choice made it incredibly obvious if someone was trying to pass off a cheap burned CD as a legitimate seventy dollar piece of software.
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