{"id":143007,"date":"2026-08-19T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/19\/10-quake-shareware-cd-locked-copies-of-all-id-software-games-behind-a-flawed-encryption-scheme-pay-over-the-phone-system-only-held-up-for-39-days-after-1996-release-leaving-developer-with\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T10:30:00","slug":"10-quake-shareware-cd-locked-copies-of-all-id-software-games-behind-a-flawed-encryption-scheme-pay-over-the-phone-system-only-held-up-for-39-days-after-1996-release-leaving-developer-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/19\/10-quake-shareware-cd-locked-copies-of-all-id-software-games-behind-a-flawed-encryption-scheme-pay-over-the-phone-system-only-held-up-for-39-days-after-1996-release-leaving-developer-with\/","title":{"rendered":"$10 Quake shareware CD locked copies of all id Software games behind a flawed encryption scheme \u2014 pay-over-the-phone system only held up for 39 days after 1996 release, leaving developer with 150,000 discs it couldn&#8217;t sell &#8211; Tom&#8217;s Hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.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?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">$10 Quake shareware CD locked copies of all id Software games behind a flawed encryption scheme \u2014 pay-over-the-phone system only held up for 39 days after 1996 release, leaving developer with 150,000 discs it couldn&#8217;t sell<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">Tom&#8217;s Hardware<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>$10 Quake shareware CD locked copies of all id Software games behind a flawed encryption scheme \u2014 pay-over-the-phone system only held up for 39 days&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/19\/10-quake-shareware-cd-locked-copies-of-all-id-software-games-behind-a-flawed-encryption-scheme-pay-over-the-phone-system-only-held-up-for-39-days-after-1996-release-leaving-developer-with\/\" class=\"read-more\">[more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[421],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}