November 29th, 2004
Microsoft Pirates Software Too
Found this slightly old news at /. about an article on German PC-Welt magazine report that Microsoft apparently used an illegal version of SoundForge 4.5 to edit the 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.
Exquisite!