Microsoft hires Deepz0ne?
p2pnet.net News:- Bill and the Boyz have used illegal sound files in Windows Media Player, claims a fascinating /. post.
“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,” says an anonymous reader, going on:
“You can check that yourself by opening any file in the [Windows location] HelpToursWindowsMediaPlayerAudioWav 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 shame ; )
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See:-
illegal sound files – Warezed SoundForge Files In Windows Media Player, slashdot, November 12, 2004
November 14th, 2004 at 6:21 pm
When you process a file with a program the copyright is the same as the input file, unless the utility incorporates material from other sources, and even then only that material is from the copyright of the other source.
My point is that the sound files are not illegal.
The software used to process them might be.
I say might because I was unable to find any files like those mentionned in this article.
November 14th, 2004 at 11:22 pm
Uh..Where in the article does it mention the sound files are illegal? You know, when you decide to troll over people you might want to do it legitimetely.
Now “My point” is the original topic: MS used pirated software to build onto its OS. Whoever decided to use the program didnt think of looking for watermarks set in by the groups so people dont rip them off for commercial purposes…People like Microsoft.
Yet we continue to hear about XP and their woes about being stolen from.
November 14th, 2004 at 11:24 pm
Me again..You’re right..Lol. It does say “illegal sound files” which is incorrect, the correct way to term this is MS used pirated software to create product for commercial use.
November 18th, 2004 at 2:56 pm
I think it would be more accurate to state “Microsoft used sound files created with pirated software”. It is not known where the sound files came from. Did someone at MS create them? Did they buy them from the composer? Did they download them with Kazaa?
November 24th, 2004 at 6:39 pm
I’m sure these were created with a contractor. This type of stuff is help files, and MS typically outsources this kind of thing to some media production studio.
I bet they don’t use those guys for the next round!
October 19th, 2005 at 1:23 pm
sourceforge.net/users/deepz0ne/
I mean this clearly proves that the user is indeed a registered user of the software – there is no evidence of piracy.
January 6th, 2006 at 5:48 pm
you are nuts
December 20th, 2008 at 4:08 am
sourceforge / soundforge… Note the little difference
May 9th, 2009 at 8:57 am
Yup, this story is still alive.
And the sound files still have the Deepz0ne string in them even in May 2009, with all the updates and stuff. I guess Microsoft has no idea, because if I were in their shoes I would’ve released a “cosmetic” update for that the files themselves only have 1,73MB unpacked so it would be very easy to replace them with “cleaned” WAV files.
August 12th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Think about one additional and very small thing – how one of the best world’s computer crackers could register himself under ‘red-list’ nickname? Mr Peter Marinov IS NOT the M$ ‘deepz0ne’, never was and never will be. deepz0ne = Deep’s One