Microsoft caught using cracked software!

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  • ian
    Addiction started
    • Jun 2004
    • 289

    Microsoft caught using cracked software!

    Don't know how anyone discovered this, but the WAV files for the Media Player demo were created in a cracked version of soundforge! This is how to prove it:

    Select one of the WAV files from WINDOWS\Help\Tours\WindowsMediaPlayer\Audio\Wav, open it in notepad, you will get a load of jibberish, but if you scroll to the bottom, you will find the line "Deepz0ne ISFT Sound Forge 4.5 "" e

    Deepz0ne, as some of you will know is a founder of cracking group Radium!

    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\Au...


    There are two downsides to this story though... Sound Forge is of course now owned by Sony - Sony v MS is hardly as entertaining as Sonic Foundry v MS would have been.

    Secondly - I bet MS outsourced the job of creating these WAV files - so rather than them getting into trouble for this, they'll just point the finger at the responsible freelancer
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  • muggeh
    Getting Somewhere
    • Jun 2004
    • 218

    #2
    Well either way it's stupid to make money using warezed software whoever is to blame imo... especially when you're dealing with ms.

    Btw are you a pothead now ?

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    • ian
      Addiction started
      • Jun 2004
      • 289

      #3
      Originally posted by muggeh
      Btw are you a pothead now ?
      Signature for Rent - ?1/character

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      • muggeh
        Getting Somewhere
        • Jun 2004
        • 218

        #4
        I meant your avatar, you have a teapot on your head

        Only joking around m8

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        • Hos
          Are you Kidding me??
          • Jun 2004
          • 4286

          #5
          damn this shit must be good, i could swear ian's avatar was of george w.
          black is the new black www.mercuryserver.com

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          • Hos
            Are you Kidding me??
            • Jun 2004
            • 4286

            #6
            fuck me what the hell is going on...i'm tripping here, now the chin is growing.
            black is the new black www.mercuryserver.com

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            • Hos
              Are you Kidding me??
              • Jun 2004
              • 4286

              #7
              ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i'm scared. :cry:
              black is the new black www.mercuryserver.com

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              • skahound
                Someone MARRY ME!! LOL
                • Jun 2004
                • 11411

                #8
                Control yourself Hos.
                A good shower head and my right hand - the two best lovers that I ever had.

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                • ian
                  Addiction started
                  • Jun 2004
                  • 289

                  #9
                  Signature for Rent - ?1/character

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                  • Hos
                    Are you Kidding me??
                    • Jun 2004
                    • 4286

                    #10
                    that avatar is awesome!
                    black is the new black www.mercuryserver.com

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                    • muggeh
                      Getting Somewhere
                      • Jun 2004
                      • 218

                      #11
                      Redirect me to your "guy" and all your probs will go away i swear

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                      • sjaracz2
                        Getting Somewhere
                        • Jun 2004
                        • 137

                        #12
                        Re: Microsoft caught using cracked software!

                        Deepz0ne he gets around alot very good cracking groupe
                        Nectar is to Bees As Money is to a Women

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                        • ian
                          Addiction started
                          • Jun 2004
                          • 289

                          #13
                          Re: Microsoft caught using cracked software!

                          Don't you love what a bit of photo shop can do?!

                          Originally posted by sjaracz2
                          Deepz0ne he gets around alot
                          Even into Microsoft Software it seems!
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