Store Wars: WinRAR strikes back - WinRAR files DMCA claim against pirates

[Trik'Stari]

1 hour ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

This absolutely.  They already have built in zip support which is great, but it's one of the lesser used formats as far as I can tell.  Rar and 7zip are definitely at the top in my experience, and probably in that order, at least among Windows things.  I know the Linux side uses a ton of tar.gz and so on but that's another story.  I can understand having issues with RAR licensing but that doesn't change the fact it would be nice, and considering they managed it with mp3 and other proprietary formats, I don't see why they couldn't.  The less extra custom software necessary for daily tasks the better imo.  I loved the addition of the built in ISO mounter in Windows 10 even though I don't use it very often.  This could be another one of those.

You've no idea how nice the built in ISO mounter is for..... let's just say stuff.

 

Yeah, stuff. Installing stuff one might not have the disc for, or a CD burner, or blank CD's.

or a license to install....

 

So I'm okay with piracy, but seriously, WinRAR? That's a bit far. If accidentally buying WinRAR is the actual secret to getting into heaven, surely pirating it gets you a one way ticket to hell.

 

Spoiler

 

[HarryNyquist]

Why is this news?

 

WinRAR is trialware, even if it's an indefinite trial. If you plug in a key that you didn't buy, that's piracy.

 

They're perfectly fine to issue a DMCA here. I literally see zero reason that this is a problem.

[miagisan]

Compression still has a ton of uses, such as moving or emailing large amounts of small files and documents. Compress them up into 1 neat and tidy file. We use it at my company constantly. Emailing 30+ sections of reports and files/photos would cause the receiver to rage if you had to email them as separate files. 

[GoodBytes]

1 hour ago, miagisan said:

Compression still has a ton of uses, such as moving or emailing large amounts of small files and documents. Compress them up into 1 neat and tidy file. We use it at my company constantly. Emailing 30+ sections of reports and files/photos would cause the receiver to rage if you had to email them as separate files. 

I don't think anyone is saying that it is useless. To be clear, my point was that built-in Windows zip support, for many/most people, is plenty fine. Now of course, if you use it a lot, performance most likely matters, or you tend to work with different compression formats (which Windows doesn't support natively), then yea get a program paying or what many are saying... free... open source even, like 7zip. No point in pirating a software at this point.

[miagisan]

54 minutes ago, GoodBytes said:

I don't think anyone is saying that it is useless. To be clear, my point was that built-in Windows zip support, for many/most people, is plenty fine. Now of course, if you use it a lot, performance most likely matters, or you tend to work with different compression formats (which Windows doesn't support natively), then yea get a program paying or what many are saying... free... open source even, like 7zip. No point in pirating a software at this point.

Oh I agree, was responding to the person that said zipped/compressed files were useless in this day and age. Sorry forgot to quote them. 

[mr moose]

17 hours ago, HarryNyquist said:

Why is this news?

 

WinRAR is trialware, even if it's an indefinite trial. If you plug in a key that you didn't buy, that's piracy.

 

They're perfectly fine to issue a DMCA here. I literally see zero reason that this is a problem.

This just highlights for me there is a subset of pirates who do it out of entitlement, spite or some other petulant misgiving.   It's basically free for fucks sake, what more do people want. 

[Bombastinator]

3 hours ago, mr moose said:

This just highlights for me there is a subset of pirates who do it out of entitlement, spite or some other petulant misgiving.   It's basically free for fucks sake, what more do people want. 

Only thing I can see being an even vaguely plausible reason for them to do something like this is if they tried to pay for it and were refused.

[Kilrah]

Most will just be doing it for the technical challenge, or simply for the lulz. Probably the latter in this case, precisely becasue of the irony of cracking something that everybody's using as "perpetual trial" anyway.

 

Not winrar, but that's one I took myself way back 

 

[MadmanRB]

On 12/10/2019 at 9:44 AM, Animal901 said:

7zip!!!!!

Peazip!

[rcmaehl]

2 hours ago, MadmanRB said:

Peazip!

tar -cvf!

[Geoff35674567]

lol winrar must be desperate for cash. it was annoying back in the day when I had to install trial winrar just to open a download.

[JoeCoke]

7Zip

 

Why would anyone go to the trouble of pirating WinRAR?

[Kilrah]

With 7zip you can decompress RARs but not create them. 

[Unixsystem]

On 12/12/2019 at 12:45 PM, Kilrah said:

With 7zip you can decompress RARs but not create them. 

Why would you need to create a RAR nowadays when .7z exists?

 

As long as you can access archived RARs, I don't really see any need to then recompress that data into an outdated and proprietary format. 

[Zodiark1593]

3 minutes ago, Waffles13 said:

Why would you need to create a RAR nowadays when .7z exists?

 

As long as you can access archived RARs, I don't really see any need to then recompress that data into an outdated and proprietary format. 

7-Zip doesn't (yet) exist for Android. WinRar does exist though.