Apple is beginning to crack down on applications it doesn't like even outside of the Mac App Store...

I just stumbled upon the following explanation of a missing feature in a new version of iVI Pro, a popular video converter from South Pole Software:

Where is DVD Support in iVI Pro?

"Recently Apple have changed the way apps are distributed by developers, **even outside of the app store**, mandating that the apps need to be hardened in order to run on macOS Catalina. This process of hardening the app has forced us to remove DVD Import from the …

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