How a nephew’s CD burner inspired early Valve to embrace DRM
PC Gamer pulled that interesting tidbit from a talk Harrington gave at last week's Game Developers Conference. In her ...
Steam's DRM was inspired by an exec's nephew and his trusty CD burner
Harrington has a somewhat contentious relationship with Valve's origin story. In 2024, she said that her name had been erased ...
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 …
"My own nephew had just used a $500 check I'd sent him for school expenses and bought himself a CD-ROM replicator, so he sent ...