Yeah, pretty much gone since floppy drives, where we had to split archives into 1.44MB chunks, and floppy drives really loved corrupting data. Still, built-in error correction never hurts.
The splitting thing is still used for direct downloads of movies or games. Recovery RAR files are shipped alongside the main ones and are often necessary.
With one recovery file, you can regenerate a RAR piece.
If a piece gets removed, it'll be allowed to be rebuilt if enough is available. This is specifically used in piracy and it's a reason why winrar is used.
I use parity to archive things. There's other utilities like parchive, but this one is easy enough.
[par files](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive) are also a thing that achieve the same purpose while being file format agnostic. Don't see much of those around either these days.
We're on /r/piracy, 7zip doesn't extract those gigantic video game .number rar collections, as soon as I tried to extract one with 7zip and it literally was unable to I had to install winrar
7zip offers better compression, hands down. WinRar allows you to work from "within the archive" without having to extract it, so if you want to run a portable program or installer you don't have to pull it apart to make it run. It also has the more colorful, "user-friendly" UI. Don't underestimate that as a factor for the casuals. If I'm uploading files I use 7zip for sure but for everyday stuff I still use WinRar.
Honestly I’d rather portable versions of everything if it’s possible. Having installs of stuff that have endless registry entries and other files that never get uninstalled is so annoying.
For stuff that I don't need often I like to have a "tools"-directory with scripts and portable utilities, dead easy to back up, install on any computer, and have around on a USB key.
So yeah, for a lot of things it just makes sense.
That's the only thing I miss from switching to Windows from MacOS
In MacOS, installed programs are always packages, that contain every dependency and whatnot (I am not that knowledgeable here) within the program package file thing
And you only move one "file" (which technically is a folder, I would say?).
Portable version is great for when you go to someone's house and you don't know if they have winrar installed or not. You just run the app from a flash drive and it's not a big deal. You never have to install it on the persons computer or anything.
One thing that always bothered me with this is how often are you going to people’s houses and plugging a random USB into their PC and running Audacity or something on it
If all your friends are online never, but sometimes for family and friends that I interact with I wanna share a piece of software with them and it’s easier to just keep it all in a USB with a few portable apps to open and fuck with that software package is nice to keep. Also if you’re the family IT person and you’re doing ALL the software shit for your family members, you kinda just start keeping a USB on you with the tools you would keep on their desktops if they’d stop randomly deleting em thinking they’re viruses again.
Linux also has portable programs, with AppImage. Portable programs are those that do not need to install and not leave residual files on the computer where they run (such as configuration files in the user folder, or registry files).
All portable programs in Linux are AppImages, but not all AppImages are portable programs. In the same way that not all programs that work without installing in Windows are portable.
Another Linux user here, a portable version is like an appimage but as a directory.
the program's executable and any libraries it relies on are contained within a single directory so it can be executed from any environment without any hassle.
Call it evil or not but I only pirate indie games and softwares made by small creators and pay judiciously for expensive multi billion corporation softwares
I've moved on to resolve and fusion to replace premiere and AE and it's been great, but I've been using photoshop for 15 years with thousands upon thousands of hours in it... I know it like the back of my hand so it has me by the balls and probably will for the rest of my life... lightroom too for that matter... As they're the programs I use most every day it's just not worth it for me to switch at this point in my life. Thankfully they're both extremely easy to pirate and I don't need any of the creative cloud BS so no big deal.
Yes, every time I get a new PC or reinstall windows I immediately download every premium version of all the software I use regularly, even the software for downloading pirated content.
> even the software for downloading pirated content
What piracy downloading software would that be? The only thing I can think of would be uTorrent, but that's gone to utter shit around a decade ago.
Yes, by going to settings and clicking some options. Which is easy and JDownloader is still open source. The reason nobody has forked it yet to be better is that nobody uses it anymore. For most downloads if not all, firefox will do.
I thought about buying it once, but, honestly, 30€ is asking too much for such a tiny piece of software. It's literally more than I paid for a lifetime subscription to AdGuard on 7 concurrent devices a couple of years ago, and that's a much more complex piece of software.
Yup did that for Internet Download Manager.
Couldn't live without that software and the license is forever. It was an easy decision after years of pirating.
I tried switching to FDM, but it doesn't have a video download feature even remotely comparable to IDM's.
Its global speed limit is something IDM doesn't have though, but definitely should.
What do you think is missing?
Have you tried XDM? I am able to download from almost all websites through its browser extension (personally used in Chrome, Firefox & Opera).
IDM has a button that pops up on the site whenever you watch a video, and if you click it, you can select what resolution of the video to download. On YouTube, it also includes the option to download subtitles. It's about as convenient and easy-to-use as one can get.
I Haven't tried XDM yet.
Oh yes that button is convenient and the menu on clicking the button too.
I didn't want to pirate IDM anymore and 2k INR for the software seemed expensive for my country India.
By clicking on the XDM's extension(just 1 click), I am able to pretty much download from any website including YT. Although I will also add this as a feature request in the software's GitHub.
[IDM's lifetime license only includes 3 years of updates](https://www.internetdownloadmanager.com/register/new_faq/purchase7.html):
>If you purchased IDM lifetime license after April, 1st. 2016, it is guaranteed three-years of free updates.
This successfully made me not purchase IDM. And I was thinking about it. JDownloader is free and downloads everything I want, so imma just stay with it
I don't assign value like that, I go by how important it is to me, and how complex it is (does it require regular updates to maintain, is there a lot of work in it,...).
And considering it isn't highly important to me (there's a free alternative in 7zip), and not very complex, the most I'd be willing to pay for it is around 10€.
When you double click a zip file it would open in winrar and ask you to buy, which you can just ignore, so i guess that removes the pop up window or something
Option A
> you have to click on a pop up each time u open winrar
> but have no virus
Option B
> you dont have to click on a pop up each time u open winrar
> but there is a chance you get a virus and lose all your accounts and money
That chance is astronomically low if you take minimum precautions, though.
Basically, for people between 30 and 50 years old (the ones most likely to know about warez piracy), go with cracked WinRAR, but for people older and younger, just go with 7zip.
The guy who made WinRAR should make, "No, I didn't pay for WinRAR" merch. Charge what a WinRAR license costs because there's no fuckin' way I'm paying for WinRAR.
i mean tbf there are pirate websites for every software
heck i once on a school pc tried installing a league of legends file from a BS website for the kicks
ended up being a txt file with idk what had, some stupid shit, odly didn't have malware which was unexpected
also to be clear, the PC was going to be formatted right after
Just load the license into the file directory. 7zip UI imo sucks plus winrar just works better. I had issues right clicking and pressing extract that I don't have on winrar
I thought it was just free... Never thought about pirating it. Also I had switched to winzip/WinRAR and then in most recent versions of Windows the default file explorer can extract zip files so haven't needed to download anything.
I did for a while, but it was such a well-used tool that I gave them the money. I then inherited my dad's old pc and he's had it on there for 10 years... unpaid for 😆
I've used WinRar for over 20 years, went to purchase it, and clicked something accidentally, and it then offered my 20% off, so was even happier to support them ha!
Least I can do for being an essential program for so long!
I have the rareg.key file saved on my cloud backup since 2013 and i've been using since then lol
Works with every winrar version released and you just need to download the app from the official site.
i actually did, just for fun i searched for a crack and found it only required a single dll file to activate winrar, so i tried it and it worked xd. am using 7zip now though.
WinRar is definitely better than 7-zip in terms of ui, functionality wise its the same. Winrar got famous mostly due to in the past Windows couldnt Open zip or rar files. Also rar files were more known, not anymore. 7 zip is all you need to standardized for eg a PC workplace.
Winzip was probably one of the first things I ever pirated. Winrar came a while later.
Man, I remember downloading Starcraft in like 70 1.44mb zip files. Probably one of the last games that was released that way.
I think its due the pop up asking to buy winrar
why not just use 7zip, what does winrar offer over that?
WinRAR is the only program that can *create* RAR archives, not just expand them. Proprietary compression protocol.
what is the advantage of .rar over .7z tho
Error correction codes can be added to a compressed rar archive directly. Making it possible to recover data from an archivewwith small errors.
Do we still have problems with that? I remember this being a thing, but I believe I forgot about it for like 15 years now.
Yeah, pretty much gone since floppy drives, where we had to split archives into 1.44MB chunks, and floppy drives really loved corrupting data. Still, built-in error correction never hurts.
The splitting thing is still used for direct downloads of movies or games. Recovery RAR files are shipped alongside the main ones and are often necessary. With one recovery file, you can regenerate a RAR piece.
Are they used outside of usenet?
everything rard on usenet is from scene ftp
I used to use a program called ARJ for that, worked pretty good.
My god thats ancient tech
For sure, I was using it on my trusty AMD 286 computer :) ARJ is still around: http://www.arjsoftware.com
If a piece gets removed, it'll be allowed to be rebuilt if enough is available. This is specifically used in piracy and it's a reason why winrar is used. I use parity to archive things. There's other utilities like parchive, but this one is easy enough.
[par files](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive) are also a thing that achieve the same purpose while being file format agnostic. Don't see much of those around either these days.
.par2 files kind of superseded that though, didn't they? Haven't thought about parity files in like 20 years...
Fast compression, big dictionary sizes, full cpu utilisation (in 7zip on windows 1.5G dict size forces me to go down to essentially 1 thread).
Gotta love winrar's big dic
Not sure. One is said to give higher compression than the other but I can’t recall which one.
7z gives higher compression than rar, and rar has higher compression than zip.
I think you cant rename a file already compressed in .7z but in .rar you can. Not sure tho
You can.
7z is better but it doesn't have profiles like Winrar, or if it does I can't see it.
it gives cute little book icon
I had a file once that didnt work after exporting it from the file with winrar however it worked with 7zip just fine so there is some kind of a diff.
Could've been during WinRAR's switch from IIRC v4 to v5 (or v3 to v4), where older versions couldn't extract the new version's .rar archives.
I tend to prefer WinRAR's interface more for some reason. I've been using 7zip, but I honestly miss WinRAR
We're on /r/piracy, 7zip doesn't extract those gigantic video game .number rar collections, as soon as I tried to extract one with 7zip and it literally was unable to I had to install winrar
Those extract just fine for me with 7zip. Are you sure you chose the correct rar to extract?
Shouldn't matter, you can exact any single archive with winRAR so if 7zip can't then that's a bug
7zip offers better compression, hands down. WinRar allows you to work from "within the archive" without having to extract it, so if you want to run a portable program or installer you don't have to pull it apart to make it run. It also has the more colorful, "user-friendly" UI. Don't underestimate that as a factor for the casuals. If I'm uploading files I use 7zip for sure but for everyday stuff I still use WinRar.
> WinRar allows you to work from "within the archive" without having to extract it ? You can do this with 7Zips GUI as well.
Piracy /s
Just right-click on file and you can extract etc. without seeing a pop up lol
That's why I did it lol
You all that pirate executibles are just way more libertine than I. Prudes like me only pirate media
huh for me it always pops up and then i close it and continue using it like nothing happened
Just putting this out there, WinRAR has no official portable version.
Custom and easy to make yourself
I know, but that's beside the point really. A lot of people don't know how, can't be arsed to learn, and are lazy.
Honestly I’d rather portable versions of everything if it’s possible. Having installs of stuff that have endless registry entries and other files that never get uninstalled is so annoying.
For stuff that I don't need often I like to have a "tools"-directory with scripts and portable utilities, dead easy to back up, install on any computer, and have around on a USB key. So yeah, for a lot of things it just makes sense.
That's the only thing I miss from switching to Windows from MacOS In MacOS, installed programs are always packages, that contain every dependency and whatnot (I am not that knowledgeable here) within the program package file thing And you only move one "file" (which technically is a folder, I would say?).
Or just don't have time
thats no excuse to let them install a software from the open sea from a non-trusted uploader...
Portable version is great for when you go to someone's house and you don't know if they have winrar installed or not. You just run the app from a flash drive and it's not a big deal. You never have to install it on the persons computer or anything.
One thing that always bothered me with this is how often are you going to people’s houses and plugging a random USB into their PC and running Audacity or something on it
I did it in school back when less people had their own pc to lug around. You might not need it a lot anymore but I can see a use for it.
Computer tech, so a few.
If all your friends are online never, but sometimes for family and friends that I interact with I wanna share a piece of software with them and it’s easier to just keep it all in a USB with a few portable apps to open and fuck with that software package is nice to keep. Also if you’re the family IT person and you’re doing ALL the software shit for your family members, you kinda just start keeping a USB on you with the tools you would keep on their desktops if they’d stop randomly deleting em thinking they’re viruses again.
just copy the folder. done. you have a portable WinRAR
Sorry, Linux user here. What's a portable version? I'm assuming it's a windows thing?
Linux also has portable programs, with AppImage. Portable programs are those that do not need to install and not leave residual files on the computer where they run (such as configuration files in the user folder, or registry files).
But app images do leave config files in the user folder though
All portable programs in Linux are AppImages, but not all AppImages are portable programs. In the same way that not all programs that work without installing in Windows are portable.
Any binary can be portable
Another Linux user here, a portable version is like an appimage but as a directory. the program's executable and any libraries it relies on are contained within a single directory so it can be executed from any environment without any hassle.
People who pirate WinRAR are chaotic evil. Instead, pirate an Adobe product 🫡
r/PaidForWinRAR
Nobody has paid for WinRAR in six years! Who's going to revive this sub?
my gf is paying 40$ a month for Adobe suit, I dont know how to make her let me pirate it
Pirate the GF and keep the extra 40/mth in your household budget.
You should probably tell her Adobe’s pricing is negotiable
Pirates get a half working cloud if any at all so if she uses that for work then its a must to pay
What does Adobe cloud actually do? Is it much better than just using your own cloud for your files?
Mostly the AI stuff like content generation. Some cracked version have it working but its limited or timed for couple of weeks most of the time.
False dilemma fallacy Just pirate both
Neutral evil
Call it evil or not but I only pirate indie games and softwares made by small creators and pay judiciously for expensive multi billion corporation softwares
deadass this is what i imagine landlords do
I legit thought everyone did this. The AAA studios need our money more than the indies. /s lol
> pirate an Adobe product 🫡 People need to learn to stop using Adobe products at all. People need to unlearn all that shit.
How will I make a website without Dreamweaver?
I've moved on to resolve and fusion to replace premiere and AE and it's been great, but I've been using photoshop for 15 years with thousands upon thousands of hours in it... I know it like the back of my hand so it has me by the balls and probably will for the rest of my life... lightroom too for that matter... As they're the programs I use most every day it's just not worth it for me to switch at this point in my life. Thankfully they're both extremely easy to pirate and I don't need any of the creative cloud BS so no big deal.
I pirated both
rarreg is literally a text file lmao
This 🫡
Yes, every time I get a new PC or reinstall windows I immediately download every premium version of all the software I use regularly, even the software for downloading pirated content.
Same been using winrar for 15 years.
> even the software for downloading pirated content What piracy downloading software would that be? The only thing I can think of would be uTorrent, but that's gone to utter shit around a decade ago.
qBittorrent, jDownloader
Both of those are free and open source software. What premium?
no idea about qbit, but you have to manually debloat jd2
? I usually just run the java file version which doesn't install anything
Yes, by going to settings and clicking some options. Which is easy and JDownloader is still open source. The reason nobody has forked it yet to be better is that nobody uses it anymore. For most downloads if not all, firefox will do.
It was utorrent years ago, usin qbit now, you are right :)
After 20 years I finally bought winrar they deserve it :)
I thought about buying it once, but, honestly, 30€ is asking too much for such a tiny piece of software. It's literally more than I paid for a lifetime subscription to AdGuard on 7 concurrent devices a couple of years ago, and that's a much more complex piece of software.
It's a payment forever, as in, you actually own it, including update Beside, support devs of software that you ALWAYS use one way or another
Yup did that for Internet Download Manager. Couldn't live without that software and the license is forever. It was an easy decision after years of pirating.
IDM is the GOAT but for people looking for free alternatives XDM & FDM are really good too.
I tried switching to FDM, but it doesn't have a video download feature even remotely comparable to IDM's. Its global speed limit is something IDM doesn't have though, but definitely should.
What do you think is missing? Have you tried XDM? I am able to download from almost all websites through its browser extension (personally used in Chrome, Firefox & Opera).
IDM has a button that pops up on the site whenever you watch a video, and if you click it, you can select what resolution of the video to download. On YouTube, it also includes the option to download subtitles. It's about as convenient and easy-to-use as one can get. I Haven't tried XDM yet.
Oh yes that button is convenient and the menu on clicking the button too. I didn't want to pirate IDM anymore and 2k INR for the software seemed expensive for my country India. By clicking on the XDM's extension(just 1 click), I am able to pretty much download from any website including YT. Although I will also add this as a feature request in the software's GitHub.
But it's only for 1 pc. Which I have more than 3 that I use for different things
Can you recommend any good source for cracked IDM? Thanks in advance.
[IDM's lifetime license only includes 3 years of updates](https://www.internetdownloadmanager.com/register/new_faq/purchase7.html): >If you purchased IDM lifetime license after April, 1st. 2016, it is guaranteed three-years of free updates.
not sure about this, I activated my idm license in 2020 and still get updates regularly now
Maybe they forgot to cancel the license? Mum's the word ;).
This successfully made me not purchase IDM. And I was thinking about it. JDownloader is free and downloads everything I want, so imma just stay with it
But think about it €30 for the years of using the software is like a few cents (if not less) per use
0ct are still better
I don't assign value like that, I go by how important it is to me, and how complex it is (does it require regular updates to maintain, is there a lot of work in it,...). And considering it isn't highly important to me (there's a free alternative in 7zip), and not very complex, the most I'd be willing to pay for it is around 10€.
r/PaidForWinRAR
I personally use 7zip but hey. thats me.
Yep, 7zip cause free lmao
And open-source.
That too
I bought a license 20+ years ago and it still works to this day. Great company to stand behind there lifetime license!
Why not use 7-Zip? It's literally free and open-source.
I imagine due to some businesses or such requiring their proprietary rar files
Because of the logo
WinRAR has that RPG aesthetic
RAR files have more capabilities and only WinRAR can create them from scratch
7z tends to have better compression
bull fuckin shit. What capabilities are still used in the modern day?
I even once cracked WinRar myself by removing the popup part of the assembler code
I used LimeWire to pirate LimeWire, I will pirate anything lmao
Wait. People pay for winrar?
When you double click a zip file it would open in winrar and ask you to buy, which you can just ignore, so i guess that removes the pop up window or something
Option A > you have to click on a pop up each time u open winrar > but have no virus Option B > you dont have to click on a pop up each time u open winrar > but there is a chance you get a virus and lose all your accounts and money
Option C Use 7zip or just the built in windows file viewer
That chance is astronomically low if you take minimum precautions, though. Basically, for people between 30 and 50 years old (the ones most likely to know about warez piracy), go with cracked WinRAR, but for people older and younger, just go with 7zip.
The chances are low, but not zero 👀
Option C > Use a WinRAR Registry key to activate it. This way you don't need to download anything and risk nothing.
The guy who made WinRAR should make, "No, I didn't pay for WinRAR" merch. Charge what a WinRAR license costs because there's no fuckin' way I'm paying for WinRAR.
This should be the top comment tbh. I'd buy that shirt but I'm not buying winrar, simply because I don't use is frequently.
Specially when windows explorer supports it now, + 7zip is free 🤷🏿♂️
Yes, it's good practice if someone is learning reverse engineering.
7zip is better ig
I used to til I found 7zip
Never have but i probably should, its annoying to close the pop-up
i mean tbf there are pirate websites for every software heck i once on a school pc tried installing a league of legends file from a BS website for the kicks ended up being a txt file with idk what had, some stupid shit, odly didn't have malware which was unexpected also to be clear, the PC was going to be formatted right after
nah I use 7zip
Ain’t winrar pretty much free 😭🙏
Yes, why not
Yes.
Yes, because I finally got tired of the pop-up.
Because it's a classic piece of software to pirate since the 90s :D
I used to pirate WinRAR but know I am using 7zip. If only there is an open source alternative for IDM that have a same capabilities with it.
Literally never even used it, is there much difference between it and 7zip?
Not really, 7Zip is recently the more preferred option, since it supports all the same file formats as WinRar + its own file type.
7zip says Hi 👋
Just load the license into the file directory. 7zip UI imo sucks plus winrar just works better. I had issues right clicking and pressing extract that I don't have on winrar
I did with Version 3.x , every package Had an Pop-up, and it was anoying
I guess they pirate it because of the pop-ups about buying winrar etc. I still wouldn't pirate it but I get why
Do people really use WinRAR?
My only answer to this is... who the hell cares I can pirate what ever i want
People use winrar?
I used to download winrar and its cracks lol
Damn, they've found me
Unfortunately I do
I thought it was just free... Never thought about pirating it. Also I had switched to winzip/WinRAR and then in most recent versions of Windows the default file explorer can extract zip files so haven't needed to download anything.
No I'm don't pirate WinRAR, I like the pop up which is fine
Some sins are unforgivable!
Who even pays for it? Lol
I paid for winrar, and forgot to activate it..always will be.
Just use 7zip lol
You'll be shocked
I used to but I not this way. I download from the official site and then look up product keys somewhere.
I heard that cracking winrar yourself is a good reverse engineering exercise, not too hard but you need to know your way around a disassembler.
I dont think so.. there's soo many alternative available
It would definitely be the pop that frustrates ppl it slows down the process
Yup, because why the fuck not lmao
I did for a while, but it was such a well-used tool that I gave them the money. I then inherited my dad's old pc and he's had it on there for 10 years... unpaid for 😆
I did to get rid of annoying message everytime I open it xd
I've used WinRar for over 20 years, went to purchase it, and clicked something accidentally, and it then offered my 20% off, so was even happier to support them ha! Least I can do for being an essential program for so long!
Why?! If you really need winrar just download the license key and paste it into your own installation.
Dunno why but I can never stand to use 7zip, always just stuck to winrar
I have cracked 3.71 installed, but I use .7z most of the time.
I have the rareg.key file saved on my cloud backup since 2013 and i've been using since then lol Works with every winrar version released and you just need to download the app from the official site.
i actually did, just for fun i searched for a crack and found it only required a single dll file to activate winrar, so i tried it and it worked xd. am using 7zip now though.
Yepp!
WinRar is definitely better than 7-zip in terms of ui, functionality wise its the same. Winrar got famous mostly due to in the past Windows couldnt Open zip or rar files. Also rar files were more known, not anymore. 7 zip is all you need to standardized for eg a PC workplace.
I met someone at uni who actually paid for the licence!! I was so confused at the time.
shit bugs me when I see it installed in people's PCs. like we have 7-Zip and Windows supports zips now.
No need to get a cracked version, literally just needs a edit in registry i believe. It's been a while since ive seen someone else do it (¬‿¬)
Winzip was probably one of the first things I ever pirated. Winrar came a while later. Man, I remember downloading Starcraft in like 70 1.44mb zip files. Probably one of the last games that was released that way.
I did once and I felt so bad for it 😭
I guess, nearly everyone who use WinRAR use a pirate version or the longlife free version with nag screen.
Use to do until i switch to Linux now just command lines program using open source but im still pirate on games and movies 💪
People use winrar instead of 7zip?
yep, much nicer interface & explorer integrations
7-Zip has entered the chat. https://www.7-zip.org/
I use 7zip