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Valve's DRM was inspired by an exec's nephew, who 'used a $500 check I'd sent him for school expenses and bought himself a CD-ROM replicator… he sent me a lovely thank you note'
Valve's DRM was inspired by an exec's nephew, who 'used a $500 check I'd sent him for school expenses and bought himself a CD-ROM replicator ... "And Mike [Harrington, Valve co-founder] ...
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The Dramatic Half-Life Deal That Altered The Fate Of Valve Forever
The terms of the deal, Harrington said, was that Valve would fund all but $1 million of the development costs of Half-Life's sequels, with Sierra retaining IP rights and giving Valve back 15% of ...
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Valve's DRM Origins Include An Exec's 19-Year-Old Pirate Nephew
PC Gamer reports that Harrington told the unlikely Valve DRM origin story featuring her 19-year-old nephew at the Game Developers Conference. "At the time, consumer-level piracy was just becoming ...
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Amazon tried to buy a stake in Valve long before Steam became a reality - TechSpot
Newell and Mike Harrington, both former Microsoft employees, founded the studio in 1996 to develop Half-Life, one of the most influential titles in the first-person shooter genre.
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How a nephew’s CD burner inspired early Valve to embrace DRM
But years before that, with the 1998 launch of the original Half-Life, Valve cofounder and then-CMO Monica Harrington said she was inspired to take DRM more seriously by her nephew's reaction to ...
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'There's an alternate universe where Half-Life disappeared after release': Valve's first marketing strategist Monica Harrington says she helped navigate its way out ... - PC Gamer
But according to Monica Harrington, Valve's chief marketing strategist in its early years and then wife of studio co-founder Mike Harrington, we only barely avoided a world where Half-Life left ...
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New Mexico sheriff stranded on top of police unit during flood - WLWT
Video shows Chaves County Sheriff Mike Herrington stranded on top of his police vehicle during a flash flood in Roswell, New Mexico. Skip to content. NOWCAST WLWT News 5 at 6:00.
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New Mexico sheriff stranded on top of police unit during flood - WPBF Channel 25
Video shows Chaves County Sheriff Mike Herrington stranded on top of his police vehicle during a flash flood in Roswell, New Mexico. Skip to content NOWCAST WPBF 25 News at 6 a.m.
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New Mexico sheriff stranded on top of police unit during flood - KETV NewsWatch 7
On Saturday night, severe flooding hit Roswell, New Mexico, following historic rainfall in the city. During the flood emergency, Chaves County Sheriff Mike Herrington was swept away in his police ...
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New Mexico sheriff stranded on top of police unit during flood - WXII Channel 12
Video shows Chaves County Sheriff Mike Herrington stranded on top of his police vehicle during a flash flood in Roswell, New Mexico. Skip to content. NOWCAST WXII 12 News at 6 AM.
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New Mexico sheriff stranded on top of police unit during flood - WGAL Channel 8
Video shows Chaves County Sheriff Mike Herrington stranded on top of his police vehicle during a flash flood in Roswell, New Mexico. Skip to content. NOWCAST WGAL News 8 at 11:00.