Alcohol 52% (download) is now freeware for non commercial use on a single home computer. For those not familiar with Alcohol software, it is CD & DVD back-up and emulation software, which allows one to back-up games, software and DVD titles and use them without risk of damaging the original discs or misplacing them on the move as the software is capable of creating virtual drives from the alcohol-created disc images.

The Alcohol 52% Free Edition offers pretty much the same functionality as Alcohol 120%, but without the writing engine, has a limitation of 6 virtual CD/DVD-ROM drives and requires installation of the Protection Database Search Toolbar by Candeo Technologies, Inc. Alcohol Software offers a retail software version of Alcohol 52% without these restrictions apart from no writing engine, which is present in Alcohol 120%.