I must say that I'm puzzled by the vociferous nature of the responses of some people to this. I find the frequency of updates annoying, and I've been using Slysoft software, and before that Elby's CloneCD, for five years or so now, and I've paid for all of it - including having to re-purchase CloneCD over again fromSlysoft. Just because I find the frequency of updates to be more than I need, I object to suggestions that I must be a pirate.
However, unlike those people, I'm prepared to consider other people's POVs, and I can understand the value of the frequency of updates to them. What I would suggest (and I've noticed that Slysoft _are_ working on automatic updates - not that those will be much use to me unless they can run in non-administrative accounts) is that Slysoft a) grade the importance of their updates, say, on a scale of 1 to 5, and b) let people set the level of notification according to this. This would seem to me to be a pretty reasonable solution, not difficult to implement, and should work for those who want every update they can get, and those who don't want them so frequently.
Quite honestly, although I find AnyDVD extremely useful, I find myself asked to update more frequently than I have a need to copy DVDs, and just for the region defeating capability, I could use DVD Region Killer quite happily - and do on other machines - although I must admit that, living in Europe, the region defeating capability, whatever software provides it, is absolutely essential.
