Is there any way you can borrow sounds from a map if you like those sounds? (Without emailing the author xD)

Depends if the map is protected or not. If it's not, then you can open it up with any editor and "export" the sounds. If it is protected, well, you may be in luck depending if the protection is strong or not. Most protectors I've encountered only delete the listfile, and do NOT protect the sounds. If this is the case, download WinMPQ and open up the .scm or .scx. Extract all of the UNKNOWN files and test them with a sound-playing program. Test all of them until you find what you're looking for.

if that were starcraft's burrow sounds in the map, you can add them easily with scmdraft (virtual sound, creates a connection to the file inside the mpqs directly).

That's borrow not burrow.

OSMap.

nuff said.

I didn't want to be blunt about it, since Map Unprotection is so hush-hush here.

It's not really possible to "protect sounds." The closest thing would be to remove the listfile so you can't see their names. All you gotta do is open the archive with winmpq and get the unknown files. You can, of course, determine the real names by looking at the STR section in the CHK (assuming they didn't randomize those either).

OS Map makes it a lot easier though, when you unprotect the map, the sound files in it are automatically placed in a folder in the same directory as the program, so you can get the files right there, note that OS Map deletes that folder when you type the exit command, but when you just close it with the box in the top right, it doesn't.

we just can't link to it.