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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. Short of Cash? by Kaith+Rustaz · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Maybe Microsoft just was short of cash that day? I mean Microsoft would never do anything illegal.

    http://rustaz.com/

  2. Re:A few angles... by rackhamh · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'm gonna bet they outsource their audio file creation.

  3. Warez Public License by mordors9 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If this software package or OS contains any warez, that means any package containing it is free to use as warez as well..... hmmm I guess that means Windoze is free to be traded on the warez channel.... I'm sure I read that somewhere..... hmm maybe not.

  4. Re:winwarez.jpg by MynockGuano · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Who needs the linked JPG?

    Probably those of us who have no $WINDOWS to go to.