Monday, January 10, 2005

MSFT Stolen software

Thanks to a link on kseb.net I was pointed to an article on techspot.com that talked about microsofts stolen agenda.

You're not going to be able to believe your ears when you find out that nine of the WAV audio files located in the Help\Tours\WindowsMediaPlayer\Audio\Wav directory in the Windows installation media were created using a cracked version of Sound Forge 4.5! Whilst I certainly haven't checked yet, Tomshardware swears that if you open the files in a HEX editor or with notepad, the last line signature reads "000-04-06 IENG Deepz0ne ISFT Sound Forge 4.5" which has been confirmed by Tom's sources as genuine, and belonging to the cracker Deepz0ne. It’s not entirely certain where this one could go, given that its not too clear who is liable legally.

link to tomshardware.com article.

3 comments:

k2h said...

yeah.. yeah. I know its bad form, or bad karma, or bad something to post on your own blog, but I just wanted to let the rest of you know that I hex edited the wav files and confirmed what tomshardware found. I really hope this plays out big! how ironic.

forkev said...

NICE find.
i'll foward this baby onto my linux snobs as a sight that I too can poke fun at microsoft.

forkev said...

NICE find.
i'll foward this baby onto my linux snobs as a sight that I too can poke fun at microsoft.