Warezed Sound Forge files found in Windows

[MadeInOz]

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/13/0036243&tid=133&tid=201&tid=109&tid=1

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."


It's funny, because it's true...

 

[Lecarde]

Lol....thats hilarious....
You'd think Gates would have enough money to buy a legit copy. I guess he wouldn't want to waste his valuable resources on something like that though.

 

[Joseph E.]

Lol

 

[pinPoint]

lets not blame it on gates yet. probably the sounds were done by a different party and then ordered to be shipped for windows. im sure bill gates didnt make those sounds but someone on the company or they ordered the sounds from someone who actually used the pirated program.

 

[sthinky]

hehe

 

[Morrog]

There's an explanation for it, if I recall correctly, in one of the comments that were on Alterslash. Unfortuantly Alterslash doesn't keep archives, so you'll have to sift through all the comments on slashdot.

 

[Playerslight77]

p

 

[Psalms34]

Yeah sure whynot? The Microsoft empire was founded upon stolen software.