This reference began as a single long document and has been divided into six focused volumes for easier reading and navigation. Each volume can be read independently, though the technical foundation in Volume 1 (The 1541 Drive) underpins everything that follows.

The material covers every major disk copy protection technique used commercially on the C64 from 1982 through the early 1990s, the industrial machinery behind disk mastering, and the tools the copying scene developed in response.