Subject:Microsoft Caught Using WAREZ
Posted by: vema
Date:3/13/2005 1:13:19 AM
German PC-Welt magazine reports that Microsoft used an illegal copy of SoundForge 4.5 (Google translation) for editing Wave files shipped with Windows Media Player. You can check that yourself by opening any file in the [Windows location] \Help\Tours\WindowsMediaPlayer\Audio\Wav\ folder in notepad or other editors of your choice and looking at the last line. There you will find a reference to SoundForge 4.5 and also a user called 'Deepz0ne' who happens to be one of the founders of an audio software cracking group called Radium Message last edited on3/13/2005 1:13:37 AM byvema. |
Subject:RE: Microsoft Caught Using WAREZ
Reply by: Rednroll
Date:3/13/2005 11:13:12 AM
This is old news. This doesn't directly incriminate Microsoft as owning a cracked version of software. Microsoft hires people to create sounds for them, so the person who created the sound that went into Windows Media player is the criminal. |