Hello. kidas It is a trial version that is good for 21 days after that you need to buy it if you want to keep using it I have used AnyDVD for 2 years now and I havent found a movie yet that I cant backup The cool thing is they update it all the time and the updates are free as long as you buy it I have tried just about everything out there for copying movies and in my opinion AnyDVD and Elby's CloneDVD 2 win hands down