OT: Microsoft Corporation USES cracks

[laughingbear]

Well well, now how about that....

The "big f****** brother" MS uses a cracked version of Soundforge 4.5 to make WAV files and ships the results in windows.

Want proof? Open the file in wordpad....

File : c:\\WINDOWS\\Help\\Tours\\WindowsMediaPlayer\\Audio\\Wav
\\WMPAUD1.WAV
Length : 354468
RIFF : 354460
WAVE
fmt : 50
Format : 0x2 => WAVE_FORMAT_MS_ADPCM
Channels : 2
Sample Rate : 22050
Block Align : 1024
Bit Width : 4
Bytes/sec : 22311
Extra Bytes : 32
Samples/Block : 1012
No. of Coeffs : 7
Index Coeffs1 Coeffs2
0 256 0
1 512 -256
2 0 0
3 192 64
4 240 0
5 460 -208
6 392 -232
fact : 4
frames : 349439
data : 354304
LIST : 66
INFO
ICRD : 2000-04-06
IENG : Deepz0ne
ISFT : Sound Forge 4.5
End
bpred idelta
(1, 1) (16, 16)
----------------------------------------
Sample Rate : 22050
Frames : 350152
Channels : 2
Format : 0x00010013
Sections : 1
Seekable : TRUE
Duration : 00:00:15.879
Signal Max : 21848 (-3.52 dB)

Sound Forge saves the name of the registered user to the IENG ('Engineer') field, which means ...
Microsoft used Radium's distro of Sound Forge 4.5!!! And shipped the proof with Windows.....

[Peter Roos]

Microsoft will of course point to subcontractors...

In this case Bill Brown MAY be in big trouble, as he worked on the XP Tour music:

http://www.billbrownmusic.com/news2001.htm
http://www.billbrownmusic.com/credits.htm

I'm not sure if he only worked on Tour material outside of the shipped software (as in the Tour on Microsoft's site) or if he also provided the actual .Wav files.

I don't have the Tour stuff installed. Is this tag present in all Wave files?

[laughingbear]

In my version XP home SP1...yeah all waves have that tag.... and I do not have soundforge, just in case anyone thinks the wrong way [[;)]]