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Sony sued for nicking software

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EFF etc.

Any way EFF and some such got involved, helped sue living crap of them, which more importantly could get the issue to the kind of media read by government(s) types?
posted by : Vasek, 31 March 2008

Everybody else is doing it...

Here's a fun exercise:

Extract wmpaud?.wav files (9 in all) from your retail Windows XP CD. Actually, you can find them in your Windows directory already, but it's more authentic from the CD. Open any of them in your favorite hex editor. Scroll to the end of the file. See "Deepz0ne"? Deepz0ne was (is?) a member of Radium, a well-known warez group (or it used to be, anyway. For all I know they all joined Al-Qa'ida years ago and got killed in Tora Bora). The string was attached to all files created by a copy of Sound Forge distributed by said group. The presence of this string on a CD distributed by Microsoft may or may not mean something...
posted by : RasEm Brsiq, 31 March 2008

chutzpah

they has it
posted by : Jason, 02 January 2008

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