• DVD Trial Testimony Ends
  A Manhattan judge indicated Tuesday he was likely to declare what is seemingly banal computer code as a form of expressive content, a distinction that may help bring it First Amendment protection...
• Man Denies Wrongdoing in DVD Case
  A man accused by the motion picture industry of trying to sabotage its efforts to prevent DVDs from being copied on computers says he is a journalist, not a computer expert, and provides a public service...
• Entertainment Industry Targets Another Piracy Site
  Remember when Hollywood was hip? That idea may have gone out with the word hip. Now movie studios and their brethren in the music business have been reduced to filing lawsuits against pesky Web sites founded by college students who threaten their livelihood...
• Adaptec and Microsoft Deliver Ability to Create Custom Audio CDs With Secure Content
  Adaptec announced it has entered into an agreement with Microsoft under which Adaptec will offer support for Microsoft's Windows Media Audio format with their industry leading CD recording software applications...
• Oak Acquires TCD Labs, Adding Recording Software To CD-RW Technology Offerings
  Oak announced it has acquired TCD Labs, Inc., a developer of enabling software for CD recording technology. Combined with Oak's existing CD-RW controller technology, this acquisition enables Oak to offer a complete optical storage solution to PC and CD-RW drive manufacturers...
• Napster marches back to court
  Todat the RIAA will ask a federal judge to stop Napster from posting certain songs to its music-sharing site...
• Digital Music 101: Laying Down the Law
  Despite all the controversy surrounding Napster, it's amazing how many people don't really know what's legal and what's illegal when it comes to digital music. Is Napster illegal? Is MP3.com? Can you get busted just by visiting a site? Here's the deal...

• Movie Studios Admit DeCSS Not Related to Piracy
  The cyber trial of the century began this morning with testimony by Frank Andrew Stevenson the Norwegian cryptographer who first published an analysis of the CSS security cipher...
• Sony's New Line of High Speed Spressa CD-RW Drives
  Sony expandsits Spressa(TM) CD-ReWritable (CD-RW) line with two new drives that support high-speed 12X maximum write, 8X maximum rewrite, and 32X maximum playback for quick and easy use...
• Adaptec's Jam Now Offers Faster CD Mastering
  Adaptec's new release of Jam for the Macintosh now offers support for USB and FireWire CD recorders and also includes new MP3 burning capabilities.
• Is Scour 'Napster with movies'?
  Don't make a selling point out of copyright infringement. That's the message that 30 major media companies are sending to multimedia search portal Scour Inc...
• Stats Speak Kindly of Napster
  The trade industry association is alleging in a lawsuit against Napster that it's responsible for lost music revenue because of its free-music downloads. But this newest data suggests that Napster may be more of a music-marketing tool than a replacement for CD buying...
• Study: Napster users buy more music
  People who use Napster and other file-swapping networks to trade MP3 files are more likely to boost their music spending than those who don't use such services, according to a new study from Internet research firm Jupiter Communications...

• Sony develops 1.3GB double-density CD formats
  Sony Corp. has developed a new disc format that doubles the data capacity of CD-ROM, CD-R and CD-RW media to 1.3Gb from the current 650Mb...
• Sony Establishes Double Density CD-ROM/-R/-RW Formats
  Sony Corporation today announced plans to develop a "Double Density CD-ROM/-R/-RW (tentative name)" with 1.3GB data capacity.
• CDs & MiniDiscs still reign over MP3s
  Digital music players were all the rage in 1999. Old-school digital products, that is, such as CD and MiniDisc players, according to a new survey...
• Napster Fires Off Brief Against RIAA's Injunction
  After months of relative silence, controversial music-swapping software maker, Napster filed a brief addressing concerns voiced by the Recording Industry Association of America in an injunction they filed earlier this year...
• Napster Claims Federal Law Protects Music-Swapping Software
  A federal law that allows copying music for personal use  should protect the popular online music-swapping application Napster from being shut down by the recording industry...
• Philips plans to double CD-R drive production
  Philips said that it planned to double its production capacity of CD-Rewritable drives to 20 million units annually by the end of 2001...
• What the Recording Industry Must Do to Survive
  CDs are obsolete. If recording-industry execs don't take note. They'll be obsolete soon too.
• Casio Offers Revolutionary New Extended-Play MP3 Personal CD Player
  Casio Communications announced the PZ-5000, a full-featured MP3 personal CD player, at a very affordable price of $159.99...
• End of the road for Smart and Friendly
  Two sources confirmed Smart and Friendly ceased daily operations in late May after its assets were liquidated by Sanwa Bank California.

The current Blindread and Blindwrite have expired. But we are still not able to update the current version, just because the upgrade is not ready!

We are working as fast as possible to provide an update. During that time, you can use this TEMPORARY unlock key that will allow anybody to trial our software :

  93Q6 - Y26R - 30O2 - 7LFJ (Watch out for 0 and O)

Why are we late ? There is several reason, but the main one is the emails. We are completely flooded by thousand of emails. We hardly can handle such a flow - we have spent most of our time answering, and only a few days to update BR/BW.

We hope to release the newer version this week (but not guaranteed). It'll have :

BW:

• More CD writers Supported
• CD Text capabilities
• Partial CUE file support (Multiple & wave files shall not be supported yet)
• Load of Bugs corrected

BR :

• Alternative Read & Subcode Extraction supported on many more CD units
• Some very special TOC layout supported
• Absolute Min & Max speed settings (for Adaptive speed)
• Extraction method 3 (single gap) removed (use method 2 instead)
• Speedups, bugs correction,

• 12x Write / 10x Rewrite / 32x Read (CAV)
• IDE/ATAPI Interface (UDMA33)
• 2 Mb Buffer
• Access Time: 150 - 160 msec (CD-ROM/R - CD-RW)
• BURN-Proof Technology implemented