Microsoft caught using pirated software(!)

[Stalkid64]

:happy:
http://slashdot.org/articles/04/11/13/0036243.shtml?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."

Oh the irony. Microsoft = irate:
Urge to laugh... rising.

 

[-Shadow-]

LMAO ! :happy:

 

[ScottJC]

haha, microsoft better pay soundforge devs a lot of money for this

 

[-Shadow-]

Let's take Microsoft to the court !!! :happy:

 

[Modem]

Oh, this is good... oh yes, this is good, haha. I'm laughing already. :evil:
- Modem

 

[Clements]

Yep, here's the proof right here! :happy:

 

[2fast4u]

oh the irony...

 

[My95ZR2]

Does this mean users can play "Monkey-see, Monkey-do"?

 

[vampireuk]

 

[posty_2k3]

I just checked to see if its true as well. And it is XD

 

[Stalkid64]

Yup... I guess Microsoft will be handing Sony a nice fat wad of cash soon. Something we can all appreciate the joy of.

 

[MasterPhW]

One of the best things, cracker had done... for microsoft...
Bill Gates seems to have to less money to buy such a little license!

 

[AlphaWolf]

I suppose microsofts new motto should be: "Do as we say, not as we do"

 

[Stalkid64]

I thought that already was their motto..? :shifty:
Oh wait. This version has more after "do as we say".

 

[smcd]

Hmm, software that puts stamps of who the product is licensed to in the resulting files (audio in this case) is a tad annoying, especially if you get caught using bum licenses :wink:

 

[sheik124]

omg, i can't stop laughing. haha, MS got served.

 

[vampireuk]

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