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Warezed SoundForge Files In Windows Media Player
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."
Does anyone have proof it was MS and not a contractor hired to make the sounds? Last time I checked they contracted out that sort of thing. Then again it makes MS look bad so it deserves a post.
No, it was Microsoft so by definition it's wrong and evil.
and thus is the difference between a libertarian and a conservative. I don't condone drug use--I don't do it, and I don't like it. I am, however, willing to allow others to do as they please so long as it doesn't affect me (which is why driving intoxicated or public intoxication should be illegal--because it does affect me). The war on drugs is a conservative thing, however (although the liberal law makers are equally on board that bandwagon). You won't ever find a libertarian in this situation--they don't care what the other guy is doing, as long as they remain harmless.
The moment you come into my home, or threaten my family and/or property, you forfeit that right. If you draw a gun on me in my home, you die. You threaten my family in my home, same thing. You go out in the streets higher than a kite while driving a car, you go to jail. You kill someone while intoxicated, you die. Its simple and effective. I don't think anyone deserves a second chance on those issues. They are clear cut. If you want to stay in your house and dope yourself up beyond reason, fine with me--but the MOMENT you step outside your home, or start to hurt anyone to support your habit--you are done.
The only legitimate war on drugs is drug-related crimes (theft, murder, rape, etc). Drugs themselves are not the problem. Oh, and one other thing--seeking to exploit a minor via drug addiction--that should punishable by a severe beating by all the adolescents whose life you are screwing up. Do it, and you get canned.
As far as MS goes--hit 'em where it hurts--the pocket book. Yeah, they may not suffer much in the short term, but for every IT admin that switches to linux and refuses to switch back, that's a few less sales to MS. Eventually this will make them wake up. If they are too late, then they go away. Oh, and if you REALLY want free economy to work, end government subsidies for various big businesses (airlines come to mind), and then end the patent/copyright protections for corporations. They should get 3 years, and not a day more. If they can't make money on it in three years sufficient to justify the R&D, then they are just out of luck. Nvidia certainly makes enough to justify it, as does AMD & Intel--look at their product cycle if you don't believe it.
"We don't know what we are doing, but we are doing it very carefully,..." Wherry, R.J. Personnel Psychology (1995)