ZedClampet
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That time Vivendi tried to shut down Valve....
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TLDR: Vivendi decided to teach Valve a lesson, put them out of business and steal the Half-Life IP. As part of the lawsuit, Vivendi sent piles of Korean documents. Valve just happened to have a native Korean speaker as a summer intern who discovered an email where Vivendi was ordering the destruction of documents...
A summer intern once saved Valve from a near-fatal lawsuit after a publisher 'decided to go World War 3' on it, and it all hinged on one email
"The company was pretty close to going bankrupt, I was pretty close to going personally bankrupt—we went all in, there was no money left"
TLDR: Vivendi decided to teach Valve a lesson, put them out of business and steal the Half-Life IP. As part of the lawsuit, Vivendi sent piles of Korean documents. Valve just happened to have a native Korean speaker as a summer intern who discovered an email where Vivendi was ordering the destruction of documents...
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