The shutter end is more tricky as there is the shutter spring to be aware of and how to put it back, the shutter itself (and you can crack part of the plastic that forms the lip where the shutter rides along), plus there are a few more welds to break on that end so it's far easier to go the write protect end if it doesn't have a paper label over both halves, which Speedball 2 doesn't appear to have!
The paper label covering both halves usually means breaking the shutter end if you don't want to damage the label, so personal choice which end you open but some disks seem to have stronger welds than others and I've broken the plastic around the weld as it was that strong so some people use a sharp stanley knife or craft knife to slice through the welds instead.
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