In a bit of malicious compliance, Vivendi turned over millions of pages of Korean language documents from its local subsidiary during the discovery phase of Valve's cybercafe lawsuit, with anything potentially useful to Valve buried under both the volume of material and a language barrier. Quackenbush turned to a summer intern identified only as "Andrew" in the documentary. A native Korean speaker who also majored in Korean language studies in college, Andrew found the needle in the haystack: An email where one Korean Vivendi executive discussed the destruction of documents related to the Valve case to their superior, with the implication that the more junior executive was ordered to do so. With this evidence in hand, Valve was able to turn the tables on Vivendi, securing a highly favorable settlement and full ownership of its IP moving forward.

It's not clear to me how the email described was helpful though?

Vivendi were complete pricks. They knew they were breaking the law the entire time and still tried to tank Valve, their own asset, instead of just stopping it.

That intern was the hero we needed 🫡

A nice story. I just find it a bit odd that the article says nothing about what became of "Andrew", the summer intern, whether Valve paid him an appropriate bonus or offered him a job later on.

Why doesn't it surprise me that they end up paving the way for Activision Blizzard.. "On 2 December 2007, Vivendi announced that it would be merging its game publishing unit with Activision in a $18.8 billion deal. This will allow the merged company, Activision Blizzard, to rival Electronic Arts, the world's biggest video game publisher." Cited from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivendi Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7123582.stm https://www.reuters.com/article/us-activision-vivendi-idUSN0236714920071202/

Proud of mah boy Andrew!

There is no mention at all of any payment for the summer intern in the article. Shouldn't be a surprise, really.

Whole article about how massive success stories are one legal battle away from not being made in this country, as well as the exploitation of workers' other skills without additional (if any) compensation. They completely miss that angle on the story somehow.

I think we should petition Valve to award that intern Andrew something big, like a million bucks or so, if that hasn't happened yet! They might just be cool enough to go with it!

Let's gooo Andrew!!