Warezed SoundForge Files In WMP
Found on Slashdot on Thursday, 11 November 2004
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 happen to be one of the founders of an audio software cracking group called Radium.
That will make Microsoft's fight against piracy a bit harder. Even if it perhaps just was an employee of some sub-company, it still falls back on MS. On a side note: I also submitted this article to Slashdot several hours ago, but sadly my post didn't make it. Oh well, at least the information itself got posted.