Microsoft using pirate SoundForge?

livemusic · Nov 15, 2004

I just read in another forum that Microsoft is using a pirate and cracked version of SoundForge 4.5 to edit WAV files shipped with Windows Media Player.

This was informed by the German magazine PC Welt and the Slashdot web site.

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.

As you can see the file refers to "Deepz0ne", one of the developers of audio software cracks from Radium group.

Acid X · Nov 15, 2004

That would be pretty hilarious.. Microsoft would be making a big mistake though.

Jedi2016 · Nov 15, 2004

That could be interesting... Microsoft is a big company, sure, but Sony's not exactly small-time... Clash of the Titans and all.

Burnout · Nov 15, 2004

Acid X
That would be pretty hilarious.. Microsoft would be making a big mistake though.

It would be very funny.

cardude2004 · Nov 15, 2004

That would be bad, but I already have SoundForge on our Sony computers and I have Windows Media Player.

Burnout · Nov 15, 2004

It worked for me, and it would certainly seem Deepz0ne ISFT would be sometype of cracking group, unless M$ used humor and made it up.

skip0110 · Nov 15, 2004

Burnout
...unless M$ used humor and made it up.

This is a ton more likely. My dad works in the software buisness, and everybody from the top dogs to the cube farm coders has had many hours of training on copyright law/software liscensing limitations. The decision of which WAV editor to use is most likely reviewed by one of the higher-ups, which would not allow this. Probably some coder was just trying to be funny. Or is a member of the crack group, and wanted to just 'represent' his 'clan', so to speak.

Or have I severly underestimated Mircosoft's corruption?