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Warezed SoundForge Files In Windows Media Player

Posted by timothy on from the let-the-bsa-sort-it-out dept.

An anonymous reader writes "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."

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  1. Not a big deal really by fzammett · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If I assume this is true, and I have no reason to doubt it is, it really doesn't represent something newsworthy (and no, I am not new around here, and yes, I know this is typical).

    Some employee at MS had a warez copy and did their wotk with it like an idiot. Deserves to be fired, sure. But this isn't some vast MS conspiracy here, nor I'm sure does it represent the tip of a huge warez-using portion of MS iceberg.

    Seriously editors, is this really the best news headline you've seen in the past hour?!? Slashdot becomes more and more irrelevant as an actual news site with each passing day. At this point I just stop by to see the train wreck.

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  2. Nanny nanny boo boo. by rice_burners_suck · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    HURRAY FOR MICROSOFT!!!!!

    I wish I may, I wish I might, have this wish I wish tonight: I wish that the makers of SoundForge will start suing all of Microsoft's customers (that's everybody) for every penny they're worth, SCO style, so that Microsoft's "unlimited" indemnification for its customers that it keeps spouting off about when arguing against Linux will kick into effect and drain away all of Microsoft's billions in a matter of months. Then I will be happy.

    Hey Bill: Nanny nanny boo boo!

  3. Oh Hell, why not... by el-spectre · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yep.. the GOP is so full of shit, it's members burn better...

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  4. Re:The real lesson by Moofius.the.Cow · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Boo fucking hoo.