Pirated music distributed by Microsoft?

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

"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."

The link to the original article is
http://www.pcwelt.de/news/software/104785/index1.html, the
translation is
http://www.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcwelt.de%2Fnews%2Fso ftware%2F104785%2Findex1.html&langpair=de%7Cen&hl= en&ie=Unknown&oe=ASCII.

Why is Microsoft using pirated software to produce and distribute
files?

Duncan Murdoch

-----Original Message-----
According to a Slashdot article
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?
sid=04/11/13/0036243&tid=133&tid=201&tid=109&tid=1:

"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."

The link to the original article is
http://www.pcwelt.de/news/software/104785/index1.html,
the
translation is
http://www.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%
2Fwww.pcwelt.de%2Fnews%2Fsoftware%2F104785%
2Findex1.html&langpair=de%7Cen&hl=en&ie=Unknown&oe =ASCII.

Why is Microsoft using pirated software to produce and
distribute
files?

Duncan Murdoch
.

Why do you think they are? An article making an accusation
is not proof, fact or final.


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But government sees it as an obstacle to be overcome.


"Duncan Murdoch" wrote in
message
om...
| According to a Slashdot article
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/13/0036243&tid=133&tid=201&tid=109&tid=1:
|
| "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."
|
| The link to the original article is
| http://www.pcwelt.de/news/software/104785/index1.html,
the
| translation is
|
http://www.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcwelt.de%2Fnews%2Fso ftware%2F104785%2Findex1.html&langpair=de%7Cen&hl= en&ie=Unknown&oe=ASCII.
|
| Why is Microsoft using pirated software to produce and
distribute
| files?
|
| Duncan Murdoch

Jim Macklin wrote:

Why do you think they are? An article making an accusation
is not proof, fact or final.





This is not surprising. Microsoft has used all kinds of unscrupulous
methods to gain their monopoly. They just didn't cover their tracks so
well this time.

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"Jim Macklin" wrote in message ...
Why do you think they are? An article making an accusation
is not proof, fact or final.

But it's easy enough for anyone to verify. You should, if you don't believe it:

| 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."

Duncan Murdoch

Duncan Murdoch wrote:

"German PC-Welt magazine reports that Microsoft used an illegal copy

Try being from American and going through their airport security. They
have no sense of humor.