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17:31, 1 September 2006 Punishment was a fast disc copier bundled with [[BTL]] issues 3 and 4, specifically designed to copy the unusual 256-byte sector format used by BTL. It could also copy standard formats.
Among its features was the ability to use any extra memory as a transient disc buffer. In other words, if you had a 256k memory expansion, you could read a side of a disc into memory once, then write it out to as many separate discs as you liked - without the need to read the original again. This made it well suited for duplicating disc fanzines like BTL.
It was written by [[Doctor Fegg]] and [[The Equalizor]]. The name is a fairly obvious pun on [[Crime]], the popular disc copier written by [[BENG!]] coder [[Crown]].
An undocumented feature would sometimes see abusive messages pop up, or directory entries changed, if you attempted to copy 'scene' software of which the authors disapproved.