DAEMON Tools Updates:

• Compatibility fix for 'non-standard' ISO images
• Fixed crash with some EasyCD images
• Fixed problem where some Video CDs were mounted as Audio CD
• Direct support for ISO files created by EasyCD Creator (with empty SYNC, HEADER and ECC fields)

Insektors is a CD-Protection emulator for SafeDisc & SecuROM protected games. There is no need to have a DAO, RAW or SubCodes compatible CD-Writer/Reader and it is now fully compatible with Win9x, WinME, Win2k & WinXP!

• Yamaha CRW2200EZ 20x10x40 CD-RW Drive
• Pioneer DVR-A03 (2x speed DVD-R(W) / IDE) Test (Dutch)
• Ricoh 20x10x40x
• TEAC CD-W516EB CD-RW
• TEAC CD-516EB IDE CDR-W
• Ricoh MP7200A-DP 20/10/40 CD-RW
• PlexWriter 16/10/40A

• 20x Write, 10x ReWrite & 40x Read
• 2 MB Memory Buffer
• E-IDE/ATAPI Interface
• Seamless Link (buffer under run proof)

• VERITAS, Acer & Multi Media Deliver New CD-Recording Solution
  VERITAS, Acer & Multi Media announced that Acer will bundle VERITAS PrimoCD Plus(TM) CD-recording software with Acer CD-recording devices...
• France's MPO Still Believes in Custom CDs
  MPO, a French record and CD manufacturer, announced a program aimed at enabling portals and e-commerce sites to offer personalized CDs. The idea is that Internet users choose tracks online, which are then compiled and made into a CD by MPO...
• Roxio Settles Prassi Lawsuit
  Roxio announced the settlement of its lawsuit with Prassi Software. Under the terms of the settlement agreement, Roxio received $2,000,000 from Prassi as well as the assignment by Prassi of its alleged intellectual property rights in the products known as CD Right! and CD Right! Plus and the code comprising these products...
• New high-quality MP3 format debuts
  The online world will get its first glimpse of the new MP3 format today, with the first major update to a technology that has become synonymous with both digital music and online piracy.
  Thomson Multimedia and the Fraunhofer Institute, the companies behind the MP3 digital music format, are releasing an upgraded version of their music format called MP3Pro...
• Verbatim Slashes CD Recording Time to 3 Minutes with Industry's First Fully Certified 24X CD-R Discs
  Verbatim announced the industry's first CD-R discs certified for full-speed 24x recording. Offering the ultimate in speed, reliability and durability, the new 80-minute DataLifePlus media features Verbatim's innovative "Super Azo" recording dye...
• Record Companies Wage War on Rapidly Rising Piracy
  According to a report by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), music piracy is on the rise and was worth $4.2 billion in 2000. One in three of all cassettes or CDs sold each year are illegally produced...
• LuxSonor Announces INTRADA, the DVD-On-Chip Solution for Consumer DVD Players
  LuxSonor Semiconductors has established a leading role in the DVD player market with its introduction today of the Intrada DVD chip (LS2010)...

We are aware of a potentially serious compatibility issue that is resulting in system instability/blue screen on Windows XP and Windows 2002. Currently, this issue seems to be appearing in some newer game titles. We have confirmed that a particular version of Macrovision's Safedisc 2.0 that ships with many newer game titles is responsible for this compatibility issue.
Microsoft has been working closely with the Macrovision development team to address this issue and a resolution has been accomplished. An updated driver that corrects the issue is currently available for download at www.c-dilla.com/support/safedisc.html

• AOpen announced a leading edge product DVD+RW at Computex
  AOpen announced a leading edge product DVD+RW, which not only writes CD-R/RW medium, but also writes the high-density DVD+RW media (4.7Gbyte)...
• MusicMatch, Sony Electronics in CD burning deal
  Online music company MusicMatch said it reached a deal for Sony to integrate MusicMatch's Jukebox software into Sony devices enabling people to burn music onto blank compact discs...
• Napster signs away its soul
  Napster has become a distributor for the music industry's MusicNet venture, putting it on a par with corporate beasts AOL and RealNetworks...
• With Nearly 1 Billion Sold, Recordable CDs Become Mainstream
  Leading market researcher NPD INTELECT reported that, over the past 15 months, sales of blank recordable CDs through U.S. retailers, mail-order firms and resellers reached nearly 1 billion blank disks...
• EMI & Roxio pact in online CD venture
  EMI Recorded Music and Roxio Inc. have entered into an agreement that will make it possible for customers to legally burn compact discs of music downloaded from the Internet. It is the first time a major music label has taken a step to permit and profit from CD burning...
• Scientists Sue to Publish Piracy Paper
  A team of academics asked a federal court on Wednesday for permission to publicly reveal how they cracked an anti-piracy technology backed by the music industry...
• Mitsui launches world's first 24x CD-R Media
  Mitsui announced the world's first 24x blank CD-R media. The Mitsui SG Ultra II CD-R will enable users to record a full 650MB onto disc in just three minutes on the new 24x speed burners...

• 12x Write, 10x ReWrite, 32x Read (CD) & 8x Read (DVD) 
• 2 MB Memory Buffer
• E-IDE/ATAPI Interface

It is currently available at Terapins website for US$ 499.00, which is quite expensive, better save-up for a DVD+RW drive when it arrives in a few months!

• PAL/NTSC Compatible
• Compatible with regular CD-R, CD-R Audio & CD-RW media
• Full OSD (On-Screen Display) on PCs and TVs
• 3 Available Colors: Raven Gray, Ice Blue & Lava Red

• Standoff on CD-R royalties nears end in Taiwan
  After several months of negotiations, Taiwan's top CD-R maker is nearing a deal with Royal Philips Electronics on royalty payments, signaling an impending conclusion to a drawn-out battle between the Dutch electronics giant and the island's numerous disk manufacturers...
• New Law Leads To Bootleg CD Crackdown
  Milwaukee police are using a new law to crack down on counterfeit music retailers...