News Valve battles it out with Vivendi

MrHaz, writing as his alter ego "Wil" comments over at the Inq on what Gamespot has sniffed out on copyright shenanigans between Valve and Vivendi:

IN A SPOT of investigative journalism, the chaps over at Gamespot have uncovered a doozy of a story regarding the on-going Half-Life 2 shenanigans.

Yes, yes, we know that we've spoken a lot about HL2 lately. The game is, however, slightly less anticipated than the coming of Christ, and is big news for Canadian graphics companies.

It seems that Valve and Vivendi are still in the midst of legal wranglings over copyright infringements relating to Valve software. Valve sued Vivendi in 2002 for copyright infringement for distributing Valve software to cyber-cafes without its permission. Vivendi responded by counter-suing, saying that Valve's Steam system infringes the license it has to distribute Valve games.

L'inquage

 

Doom 4 will be out by time we get HL2......

 

quite frankly I cant stand steam, And I hope that Vivendi's counter suit wins.

JEEVES

 

just another delay....