| 28-02-99 |
Sony's Solution for Music Piracy |
MP3 2000 |
| Sony has developed two new protection technologies; "MagicGate" and "OpenMG". "MagicGate" is for the recording and playback devices and OpenMG is for securing PCs. The idea behind these is to "move" the content rather than copy it. They will be using their "Memory Sticks" to storage the music data. Also, "Super MagicGate" is another technology developed by Sony which includes copyright management, electronic distribution, and content protection technologies for distributing digital music content over the Internet |
| 27-02-99 |
Sony now also going for Gold |
| Sony
is also selling a third kind of CDQ-74CN CD-R's, this one is manufactured by Mitsui - Thanks Romain Pauwels It is only a bit stupid that Sony is using the same product number CDQ-74CN for three total different types of CD-R's! |
| CD Dye |
| Updated the CD Dye article with a (almost) complete list of all dye's that are currently in use. |
| 25-02-99 |
CD Info |
- Added Info/Pictures for: Philips
CD-R74 Audio HR100 Megalife.
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| FujiFilm switched to Ritek! |
| FujiFilm switched from manufacturing their own CD-R's to having them now manufactured by Ritek. This also explains the bad performance that is shown by this CD-R in the CD-R Quality test! |
| Pirated Dreamcast GD-ROM's |
SegaDreamcast.net |
| One of the reason Sega is using the GD drives in they Dreamcast console was to prevent illegal copying of their games (as it happend with the Playstation). But it seems that they are now available in Hong Kong. |
| 22-02-99 |
Imation also using Ricoh in the US |
| In the US Imation
is selling CD-R74's which are manufactured by the Ricoh
company. In Europe they are using the ones manufactured by Taiyo Yuden - Thanks Craig Christy |
| Sony also using Mitsubishi in Europe |
| Sony
is also selling two different kind of CDQ-74CN CD-R's, one manufactured by Taiyo Yuden and the other one by Mitsubishi. Both have been seen here in The Netherlands - Thanks Gregory Hambleton How to identify which is which:
| Manufacturer |
Jewel Case Inlay Color |
Jewel Case Nodges |
Number
lower right corner |
| Taiyo Yuden |
White |
Round |
2-449-105-14
or
2-449-105-15 |
| Mitsubishi |
Black |
Line |
2-449-105-18 |
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| 20-02-99 |
CD Info |
- Added Info/Pictures for: Intenso
CD-R74 & CD-R80.
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| Ritek to use the gold dye formula |
Ritek, until now, only used the Cyanine (Blue) dye formula to produce their CD-R's (and the ones for Arita, BASF/Emtec, Memorex, Rimax, ...) but now they also are creating disks which are using the Phthalocyanine Type 5 (Gold) dye formula.
Until now the Phthalocyanine dye formula was only used by Mitsui & Kodak, but it seems that they now have also sold/licensed this formula also to Ritek. Maybe now Ritek
can produce better quality CD-R's than the ones the have produced sofar!Intenso is the first company (as far as I can see) which sells CD-R80's which are manuafactured by Ritek using the Phthalocyanine dye. |
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| Connection Problems |
| The last few days the ESWARE.NET
server has been down, all problems should be fixed now. A mirror site has been added just incase problems occure again. Just goto the Mirror Sites to get an active site. |
| CD-R Software releases |
CDR-Info Page |
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| 17-02-99 |
IBM, Sony, Hitachi, NEC & Pioneer agree on Watermarking |
CNET News.Com |
| Five leading computer and consumer electronics companies: IBM, Sony, Hitachi, NEC & Pioneer agreed to a common standard for digital "watermarking" technology, a means of creating copyright protections for reproduced digital movies and videos. |
| Create a Copy Protected CD Update |
| Updated the Create a Copy Protected CD page, added how to create a Mixed-Mode CD - Thanks uNDeRCoVeR. |
| 15-02-99 |
Create a Copy Protected CD |
| Here is a way to Create a Copy Protected CD, it can still be copied but it is harder to acomplish! - Thanks uNDeRCoVeR. |
| 14-02-99 |
CD-R Identifier |
Added CD-R Identifier 1.26 to CD-R Utilities page - Thanks Frank Wolf.
- Fixed a bug causing "King Pro Mediatek Inc." not to be detected correctly.
- Added 1 new manufacturer to the list.
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| Yamaha CRW4416S Firmware update |
DATAC.NET |
| Yamaha released the 1.0f firmware for the Yamaha CRW4416S CD-ReWriter. |
| CD-R Software releases |
CDR-Info Page |
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| 10-02-99 |
CD-R Identifier 1.25 |
Added CD-R Identifier 1.25 to CD-R Utilities page - Thanks Frank Wolf.
- Fixed a bug printing the minutes of the ATIP in Hex instead of decimal! (No one noticed!)
- Added 3 new manufacturers to the list.
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| CD-Cops - Another ready-made protection annihilated |
| Last week the CD-Cops CD Protection was hacked. A complete overview on how it is done can be found on the fravia's pages
of reverse engineering page! - Thanks Caio! |
| CD-R Software releases |
CDR-Info Page |
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| 09-02-99 |
CD-R Identifier 1.24 |
Added CD-R Identifier 1.24 to CD-R Utilities page - Thanks Frank Wolf.
- Fixed a minor bug introduced with V1.23 which caused the program not to identify wrong data anymore.
- Added support for more drives using another SCSI-3 command.
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| 08-02-99 |
CD-R Software releases |
DATAC.NET |
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| 07-02-99 |
CD Info |
- Added Info/Pictures for: BASF
CD-R Maxima Digital Audio & CD-R Master 74.
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| CD-R Identifier 1.23 |
| Added CD-R Identifier 1.23 to CD-R Utilities page - Thanks Frank Wolf. |
| SONY releases SecuROM Release 4 |
| SONY has come up with an updated version of their CD Protection. The SecuROM R4 is used to protect SimCity 3000 - Thanks Juzam. |
| CD-R Software releases |
CDR-Info Page |
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| 06-02-99 |
80 Minutes CD-R's |
| Added 10 more resellers of 80 minutes CD-R's to the 80 Minutes CD-R list. Now also added which CD-R80 brand(s) they are selling! |
| CD-R Writer Technology |
| Added the CD-Writer Technology page which gives an overview of all available CD-Writers on the market today and who are actually making them. |
| 05-02-99 |
CD-R Software releases |
CDR-Info Page |
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| 04-02-99 |
Audio CDs to be protected in the Netherlands |
| Yet another (dutch) article concerning the CD Protection of Audio CD's starting in March. |
| CD Manufacturers Info |
- Kodak will be producing 80 Minutes CD-R's as soon as possible.
- Lead Data has seized the production of 74 Minutes CD-R's, from now on they will only produce the 80 Minutes CD-R's. This will also mean that other brands like Lenco are not able to get their CD-R's from the Lead Data plants.
Thanks Hananja van der Lee from Opus Supplies
& Ellen Parkes from Websales Distribution for this info. |
| Oversize a CD-R using DiscJuggler |
| Updated the OverSize
article and added instructions to OverSize a CD-R using DiscJuggler. |
| 02-02-99 |
CD-R Identifier 1.22 |
| Added CD-R Identifier 1.22 to CD-R Utilities page - Thanks Frank Wolf. |
| SafeDisc CD Protection hacked! |
| The guys from Laxity have managed to create an generic patch which bypasses the SafeDisc CD Protection. |
| 01-02-99 |
CD Info |
Received a package from STL Group BV who are the distributor for Lenco here in the Netherlands - Thanks Mart Roodbeen for sending them:
- Info/Pictures for: Lenco
MCD9414 D CD-R74, MCD9415 CD-RW74 & MCD9416 CD-R80
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| CD-Writer Modifications |
| Added the CD-Writer Modification: Upgrade a Traxdata CDRW4260 Pro to a Yamaha CRW4260 - Thanks Juzam. |
| CD-R Identifier 1.20 |
| Added CD-R Identifier 1.20 to CD-R Utilities page - Thanks Frank Wolf. |
| Audio CDs to be protected in the Netherlands |
| The Telegraaf today published an (dutch) article in which it says that the music branch is planning to protect their CD's against copying. Which protection will be used or how it will be implemented is not sure as the music branch and the CD-Writer manufacturers agreed, a while back, that it should be possible to make a personal copy of any CD. The European Parlement will have the final decision how to handle this copy "problem". Het Noordhollands Dagblad also publised an (dutch) article
on this matter - Thanks Marcel Reyn.
Already a few Audio CD's surfaced lately, like the Best of George Micheal double CD, which have some kind of protection (unreadable errors) near the end of the CD. The last song is about 5 minutes but it shows up as 7 minutes when you try to make a copy.
Last month BBC Online featured an article
on problems related with the Best of George Micheal double CD (made by EPIC, a branch of Sony Music) which can't be played on certain Sony
DVD players. It seems that this problem only happens with the Sony DVP S715 and the Sony DVP S315. Other brand DVD players don't have problems playing the CD's - Thanks Gregory Hambleton |
