Veblin is right, Memorex uses a lot of manufacturers to produce their brand. Over the past year much of the -R media has been produced by CMC. Up until the beginning of this year, much of the +R media was produced by Ricoh. However, CMC has started producing the +R media. Prodisc was doing the -RW discs and Philips the +RW. Ritek was doing some of the Memorex -R discs. Ritek was supplying the G01, the lower speed disk. I'm not aware of any of the G04 discs being sold by Memorex. So, with Memorex selling a lot of CMC product, I've started to shy away from the brand.
This is just Memorex DVD media from the past year. I'm not sure of the other manufacturers for CD media or even the complete list of DVD. For some reason the "Brands" aren't forthcoming with their manufacterers.
Patin Couffin comes with a number of software programs. Also it can be downloaded separately off the net.
About the property theft, I am not sure. I have AnyDVD and don't mess with either. However, most people know there is a free DVD43 and a trialware retail version. The freebie entails using the Patin Coufin driver interface, another free download. The trialware includes the driver for the software. This is old news and the information is already spread all over the forum.
