I think you do not exactly understand how piracy works,
Stop making assumptions on my behalf. I never even mentioned torrents or streaming.
Great, but your implication is clear as day, about the “pirate” users = RAR users. I have not just been a pirate but [REDACTED], if you will, besides normal computing. The credential game is not one to be won here.
RAR continues to be the most robust production ready archival format due to its builtin recovery records
That’s irrelevant and besides the point. It could be the best damn thing in the world but it doesn’t matter if no one uses it.
Except hundreds of millions of active users use it. The active users may not be 500 million, but it sure is easily atleast 200 million, with every download site having it topping the charts. To make my post look ridiculous, you are ending up making the worst possible arguments. I say cut your losses.
Compression was a big necessity those days due to the low capacity of floppy disks, and recovery records were needed due to floppies being very succeptible to corruption. These days though, that’s all mostly a thing of the past. No one cares about the recovery records in RAR files, besides pirates.
Data archivists also use RAR for the same reason, besides multiple backups. Protection against CRC errors is always handy. I was a 40 and 80 GB HDD user, so my compression obsession comes from those days, when I was a kid and disk space was expensive to buy, later turning into expertise hobby. I continued to be one of those few users that recognised the potential of FreeARC the same time as famous repackers like FitGirl and Razor, so let us just say I will speak no more further than the word NanoZip. And that I continue to be as uptodate on compression as Zstandard and BLOSC.
I told you about the voting ratio acting as a good determining factor. If this was something as popularised as WannaCry was few years ago, I would have deleted the post. But I have not seen it posted on this instance, only on Beehaw (same activity as this post) and Lemmy.world, a couple memes on r/piracy and a post on r/datahoarder. It is not on YouTube or popularised enough on Reddit/Lemmy. WinRAR is still almost as popular as MS Office.
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Great, but your implication is clear as day, about the “pirate” users = RAR users. I have not just been a pirate but [REDACTED], if you will, besides normal computing. The credential game is not one to be won here.
Except hundreds of millions of active users use it. The active users may not be 500 million, but it sure is easily atleast 200 million, with every download site having it topping the charts. To make my post look ridiculous, you are ending up making the worst possible arguments. I say cut your losses.
Data archivists also use RAR for the same reason, besides multiple backups. Protection against CRC errors is always handy. I was a 40 and 80 GB HDD user, so my compression obsession comes from those days, when I was a kid and disk space was expensive to buy, later turning into expertise hobby. I continued to be one of those few users that recognised the potential of FreeARC the same time as famous repackers like FitGirl and Razor, so let us just say I will speak no more further than the word NanoZip. And that I continue to be as uptodate on compression as Zstandard and BLOSC.
I told you about the voting ratio acting as a good determining factor. If this was something as popularised as WannaCry was few years ago, I would have deleted the post. But I have not seen it posted on this instance, only on Beehaw (same activity as this post) and Lemmy.world, a couple memes on r/piracy and a post on r/datahoarder. It is not on YouTube or popularised enough on Reddit/Lemmy. WinRAR is still almost as popular as MS Office.