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Sep 17, 2016 9:37 PM

SuperFlatPotato

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10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Buy winrar? Do people still even pirate it?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

@DemmyDemon

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Hahahaha

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

A friend of mine bought winrar as a christmas gift to another friend

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Some people do actually follow through with shareware. I have (had?) a paid version of scorch.exe

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Once I had stable income, I bought every shareware program I use regularly.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I bought WinRAR also.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Isn't the developer of winrar pretty well off?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX_pF03vCSU

10 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

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10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My first thought as well

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

7zip for life.

10 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 2

I always imagine Winrar's owner trying to buy a snack but is a few dollars short. Then DING, someone buys Winrar and he buy's his snack!

10 years ago | Likes 63 Dislikes 4

Nah man, what happens is they sue the shit out of people who install it at a company without a license. As soon as it's picked up, they 1/3

10 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

pounce. They make a *ton* of money in settles with companies because an employee at that company violated the ToS of WinRAR. 2/3

10 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

They don't really care if a single person pirates because they aren't going to make as much money. 3/3

10 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

My coworker told me his mom bought WinRAR ... how is this a thing right now?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Reddit.com/r/paidforwinrar

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I'm there!

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

To the top with you

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And the crowd goes mild

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

7zip tho...

10 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 6

That's what I was thinking. Maybe I would have bought WinRAR in 1996...

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Or maybe PeaZip or something. Never understood why so many people still cling to WinRAR, and RAR files in general...

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Cause when you say it you sound like a wild cat. Rar!

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Had a few files that winrar could decrypt but 7zip couldn't. Still primarily use 7zip though.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Decompress, I'm sorry... I know to most it doesn't matter but I'm a dev and it's bugging the hell out of me.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Winrar... How trials should work...

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2

too bad the Nuremberg guys didn't get your memo

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Oh my...

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

+1

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

7zip

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I always thought WinRAR is a secret malware that someday will compress and encrypt all our files for a handsome ransom. But when?

10 years ago | Likes 213 Dislikes 2

then get 7zip

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

That's called ransomware.

10 years ago | Likes 68 Dislikes 1

ransomware... ranware... rinwar... winrar...

10 years ago | Likes 74 Dislikes 0

Illuminati confirmed

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

O. M. G.

10 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

This checks out.

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

+1 for 'handsome ransom'

10 years ago | Likes 32 Dislikes 1

New username lol

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I wonder what extra features the rest of us are missing out on??

10 years ago | Likes 465 Dislikes 3

It's illegal for companies to use it without paying for the licence and winrar does more than any free open source file compressor.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

It's mostly corporate accounts that pay for it.

10 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

They removed the audio jack, people are pissed.

10 years ago | Likes 31 Dislikes 4

You get into super heaven

10 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 0

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

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10 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 1

Pop-up gone, and antivirus built in. Plus heaven.

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

WinRAR extracts .tar.gz in one step when you use it from the context menu in Windows. 7-zip spits a .tar that you need to extract (afaik)

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Rawr rawr, no one understands your crazy bear-talk.

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Not much, I just torrented the full version and you literally just don't have the pop up any more.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 5

Morals

10 years ago | Likes 196 Dislikes 4

this is a good comment. i can go to bed now.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Super powers. They're a bit random. I got flight which is pretty cool though.

10 years ago | Likes 63 Dislikes 0

I got the ability to grow my nails at alarming speeds..

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Shut up, Meg.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I got flight too! Only on February 29th tho

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

I'd rather have teleportation, but w/e.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Bandizip is free, clean and awesome

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

7zip imo is the best

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 5

7zip

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

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10 years ago | Likes 37 Dislikes 1

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

He's so happy that I laughed with him. +1

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Is that from Sahara?

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

That's Idi Amin from some documentary that I can't remember the name of.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's from real life

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I evaluated mIRC about 15 years before i bought it. 10/10.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

i bought it too

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

There are dozens of us

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I think I should buy winamp now

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I pirated it....

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

2016? Not with those meme faces

10 years ago | Likes 150 Dislikes 2

Yeah they're unfunny and definitely not clever.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 4

"meme faces"

10 years ago | Likes 33 Dislikes 1

You mean rage faces

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 3

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I call those middle school memes.

10 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 2

i call em ifunny memes

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0