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Valve is not happy with in game advertisements being stuck in Counter-Strike. Well, the crew at Ars Technica are Ars Technica (http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/subway-cs.ars), following the money and seeing how it all happened and who is responsible.





If you've ever seen a computer infested with spyware (not your own, of course), you know that it's not uncommon for ads from well-respected companies to start popping up on the desktop. How the money makes its way from a Fortune 500 company to a dodgy purveyor of spyware makes for fascinating reading and has been well documented in various magazine articles and on the Web. Sometimes the major companies involved don't know where their ads end up... and sometimes they just don't ask many questions.

Good read, I imagine it won't be long after the lawsuits are settled when Valve decides to embrace this form of revenue, and oh, hey look. Here's a company that owes us millions and has the ability to run it for us. Hmmmmm...what to do...