Now, the cropped version of Nero 9 is completely free.
What is cut, you ask? All the garbage that came with Nero Burning Rom - all sorts of video editors, photo organizers and other designers of covers for CDs. Left only functionality for copying and recording discs.
UPD: in the free version only StartSmart is available, with which you can 1) burn discs 2) copy discs 3) and that's it. Burning Rom, unfortunately, is not available. This is still such a "version for the inhabitants".