What's wrong in using SoundForge, a professional program, to make some sounds/loops and then distribute them into another software packet???? Nothing, this is perfectly normal and legal...
As for the nick Deepz0ne, it is true that he was the founder (together with Sandor) of a warezgroup named Radium, specialized in cracking musicsoftware.
But, as you know nicks aren't something unique though, so this can be quite a (dodgy) coincidence. Of course, all the MS haters jump directly to the "warez-conclussion" anyways....
Was there an illegal version being used by a stupid, dodgy Microsoft employee (note: "employee", thus not Microsoft Company!)? Maybe, or it could be that the makers of WMP bought a loop from another company which used an illegal cracked version, just like Chris explained:
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Originally posted by Chris Boulton
I'd just like to point out that Microsoft outsource alot of there work like that to other companies. As the sounds are just loops they could have easily purchased them through a stock sound exchange website and bought the licensing rights to them - or they could have contacted another company to do them then once again bought the rights to them.
Also, there are some other possebilities. As said, a nick isn't something unique, and some of the employee's could've used this nick for "fun" to register SoundForge and forgotten about it.
Or, as pointed out on the original German forum, it could also be a kind of (dodgy) easteregg from the makers of WMP. MS is know to put such (dodgy) things in their files and programs (remember the blank BSOD screen when you put about:Mozilla in MSIE?).
Anyways, this news has already reached MS for sure, so wait for what they might say instead of jumping to conclussion and generalizations like "See, I always new M$ sucked and did illegal and dodgy stuff, they should be sued like hell"....
Note that these things (if it was an illegal practice by an employee) also happens in other companies, Microsoft is certainly not the only company! But of course, everything bad related to MS reaches the whole world in an instant....
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