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by userbinator 2017 days ago
Some of the "floppy extender" programs used more than the usual number of tracks, so unless the 41st was hidden somehow so that its existence was a secret, it would be no harder to copy than all the others.

Of course, that may well be why it was so successful --- the extra track wasn't well known, and information travelled much slower back then.