You Know You Have To Pay For WinRAR...Right?
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WinRAR is one of the most iconic pieces of software out there, not because it’s useful or instrumental but because of its famous 40-day trial period that never expires. This isn’t some glitch or bad programming either, WinRAR is well aware of this bypass and it’s very much instrumental. You see, WinRAR doesn’t make their money from daily users; they make their money from businesses. And the easiest way to get businesses to use WinRAR is to get the public on their side which is exactly what they’ve done by making it essentially free for everyday people. While companies could easily just pirate WinRAR as well, it’s usually not worth the consequences due to the reputational damage that would follow if this got leaked. As a result, large companies don’t think twice about paying for WinRAR especially given how cheap it is. And given that WinRAR still pulls in $21 million per year despite its popularity falling off a cliff over the past decade, it’s clear that this strategy was still rather lucrative. Nowadays, some of the biggest companies in the world leverage a similar strategy such as Google, Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat. This video explains the rise and business model of WinRAR and why WinRAR’s 40-day trial period lasts forever.
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Others: 30 day free trial 🙂
Winrar : unlimited free trial 😎
Yes sir hahaha
💀💀 always thought it was a glitch wow
Me:7Zip
Winrar is just simply built different
haha
When I got my first real job post-graduating, I actually no lie bought WinRAR. They were there for me when no one was, I can’t just ignore them once I finally had money. They more than earned it
Respect I do that too with companies that I can just pirate
same for me is IDM, finally paying it with my own money to better access of my pirating activities
Same thing I am going to do for Evorim Free Firewall.
@@raifikarj6698 Internet Download Manager actually restricts you to use it after the trial. You have to pay for IDM, or you can just pirate it. Not that I recommend doing so.
@@raifikarj6698 i personally would've used FDM (Free Download Manager) instead. But your choice :)
Even if the use case of just "Compressing data to save storage space" dies out, it's still just incredible for transferring data (especially folders) over the internet
this.
Most of the time when I download anything from the internet it's going to be in a .rar format from the getgo so if I don't have WinRar installed I'm literally unable to open the file.
Winrar is the first thing I download after downloading a new browser (f*ck Edge)
@@Z38_US how do you fuck a server
Especially when you are a pirate sailing the internet sea lots of cracks are in WinRAR format so you need to download it to unpack and use the file along side a virtual drive like Daemon.
I know all this cause I used to be one when I was a student.
Well anything important these days compresses itself, for instance this youtube video compresses and decompresses itself after transfering data without us touching any programs or files. in 2022 the file is usually much bigger than a self extractor component making compressed files make no sense as they could have been self extracting without sacrificing even a single percent in size and still dropping 20% file size.
yes, can't imagine transfering files without winrar
I love using WinRAR, mainly because they have a "recovery record" option that can me a real life saver if the data is somehow corrupted due to a hard drive failure. In the end, I chose to pay WinRAR, because I felt like I needed to support the developers, the way their software has supported me over the years.
Using Winrar because it's the best (it isn't, 7zip is better)✋
Using Winrar because the files look like a pile of books 👍
7zip is supposedly better but winrar has more functionality.
@@User-kq3od for example?
@@LostPhysx Tf you mean such as? Open 7zip and open WinRAR way more functionality available both for creating archives and for exploring them
If Im wrong I would love to hear it, I use an activated WinRAR on my windows machine and 7zip on my Linux machine, from my experience thats just how it is and so far nobody has explained to me what makes 7zip better I just know thats the widely held belief including some of those who I trust to know their shit.
@@whoisanarnb winrar can indeed do that
@@whoisanarnb Yes Winrar can open any archive that Ive used as well as non typical formats such as ISO
I paid for Winrar. It's not even that expensive compared to other unneccessary expenses. I did it as I feel it is a way of appreciation for so many years of free usage.
As an adult that can afford stuff now, I have paid for games I pirated in the past (that haven't even replayed) and have donated to Wikipedia multiple times (not a lot but yea); I encourage to monetarily support products you love. Even with just a couple of bucks.
He pays for WinRAR and Wikipedia?!?
This man is a threat to society
@@ZaHandle
bruh
@@ZaHandle bruh
@@ZaHandle wikipedia deserves the money bro
@@sebastiansandoval4861 i think bruh was joking too
I actually bought a lifetime license in like 04. It was one of the things I wanted to do once I was financially stable.
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financially stable? Its like £20. Its cheap as.
@@elixier33 yes, as in, when I didn’t have to get my money from my parents.
That £20 was useful.
I wont pay for it as it charges vat so ill not pay or use 7z
Now I'm a student, and you know, students aren't very financially stable, but once I get some more money I really want to buy the license cuz I like computers and I want to support people like me.
Been using it since I was a kid. I still use it for my self extracting mod packs for several games or to keep back ups of my assets and source files. Winrar is awesome
Now thats a title that’ll get clicks
Hopefully hahaha
@@LogicallyAnswered I love ur videos and watch all of them, but trust me when I say I’ve never clicked on any of ur videos as fast and stayed for as long as this one. I usually just save ur videos for my lunch break but today boss can kiss my ass, I need a logical answer!!
Thank you so much Abdul! I’m so happy to hear that!
ironic
Easily 😂😂
As annoying as winrar popup is, I respect them for being the pioneer of thr freemium business model that allows user to use their software without too much hassle.
I think WinRAR at its finest is like an IOU. You get me through 12 years+ of school, and I'll end up 'buying' (more like donating) a bit of my money at the end because I either feel bad about never buying it, or they've deserved it.
Was questioning why the video would be so long with that title. But all the background information. Great research and delivery off information 😃
Winrar: Please consider spending money on our product
User: No, I don't think I will.
Winrar: Understandable, have a great day, sir.
Winrar: Please consider spending money on our product
User: No, I don't think I will.
Winrar: Understandable, have a great day, sir.
User after 15 years: Shut up and take my money!
@@urnoob5528 More like:
User after a few days of using Winrar and having that annoying pop up show: * googles how to crack winrar *
@@YuYuYuna_ Downloads Bitcoin miner and pays for new gpu because his old one burnt 🤓🤡
@@YuYuYuna_ after a few months, the pop up doesnt show (atleast for me)
I believe you got that backwards. in the 80's virtually all compression was lossless because lossy compression was only really useful for pictures and movies. They existed on computers back then but there wasn't enough of it to matter. WinRAR is a proprietary lossless compression. That being said it also supports some non-winrar algorithms so maybe it does now via those. I personally haven't seen WinRAR in decades so yea.... maybe.
Thanks for the clarification man
I use winrar all the time lol
@@TaLiiWaG The Dos version was fine. They had some early hick ups for windows but I assume the fixed them or they would have died out.
The RAR formats themselves are still proprietary, and they are what .rar files use even now.
Yeah, WinRAR didn't pioneer any compression methods like this video insinuates. Lossless compression was a common thing back in the 50s, and in the late 80s/early 90s, nearly every OS used on-the-fly compression to store data.
As an ... matured computer user (first system being a win98 on a pentium 1 so i can't say old computer user yet) I still have a soft spot for Winrar as my main file compression software. Even to this day i use it regularly to deal with zip and rar files.
Been watching your videos for awhile. I love how you use logic and reasoning with EVERY video you make 😀
One day they’re going to get a new CEO and suddenly enforce their trial limit.
Then everyone will jump to 7zip
Lots of companies die this way
that's how you kill it
Reminds me of when Costco's CEO contemplated raising the price of their hotdogs because of how unprofitable they are, which led to one of the store's founders ripping him a new one
@@cherrypepsi2815 who didn't by now anyways. There was literally no downside to start using 7zip when it was released.
I use zip over winrar but this freemium business model is so common that we have conveniently overlooked it. It is similar to Microsoft / adobe allowing pirated versions of their software in the market and then charge a certain percentage of customers by employing premium features.
Problem is Adobe is trashy when it keeps crashing and generate tons of cache data in which not optimized or cleared out after finished rendering. Using Davinci now, I hope there will be more 3rd party plugins
Ehh Adobe is much more critical. For starters, unlike Windows and WinRAR, there is no legitimate free forever download that only nags you to activate or pay up. You straight up have to go to shady sites or use torrents. Worse, there is no single payment option anymore, legitimate usage requires you to pay for a subscription. This puts specifically students in an awful situation. I was one, and our school did not provide a license for home use. I could not and did not want to afford a subscription, and I ended up getting Gimp with a "almost-like-photoshop" plugin. But it wasn't the exact same and the setup was difficult, making it more confusing to actually learn to use the software.
This is a horrendous situation for students. It would be for the better if the industry ditched Adobe software and used free and open source software like Photoshop, Krita and what have you,
@@Thornskade Yeah I agree. I'm willing to purchase software, but only if I can just pay for it once; no subscriptions. I'd be much more inclined to use Adobe software if I could pay a reasonable sack of money once and then own the software.
Personally I'm fine with the industry using whatever works best for them, whether that software be proprietary or FOSS. Ultimately, both have ups and downs. If you use a FOSS app that works better for you than a non-FOSS one, great! If you paid for a proprietary app that works better for you than a FOSS app, nice! You should really use whatever works best. (Photoshop isn't FOSS btw, you probably got a bit confused there :P)
Back to Adobe, though, I generally tend not to use their software, not only because of the SaaS model but also because of poor performance and lag, which is probably the result of clunky codebases (A stupid unspoken rule in the high-end software industry is that programmers are rewarded for the amount of lines of code they write, not the actual quality of the code, this leads to many coders writing verbose and inept boilerplate code to get a promotion for more lines); Acrobat alone already performs like shit on my PC, and it's literally a gaming rig. I traded Photoshop for Paint.net, After Effects for Nuke, Premiere Pro for VSDC (possibly a stopover until I can get Vegas or something like it), Illustrator for Inkscape and am looking to pickup something like Moho or Synfig instead of Animate.
Lastly, while their software is pretty great, and in my unpopular opinion, honestly quite better than Blender in many ways (although I still use it sometimes due to the lack of a price tag), Autodesk pulls some crappy stunts with their business model too. It's also unfortunate how Maya receives all their attention as an animation tool while 3DS Max (my preferred tool so far; what shame that it's also locked behind a subscription) is left as a backwater, though tbh I guess that's what happens when you acquire competing products (like when Adobe had to handle both Flash and Shockwave, both of which had many of the same use cases).
Anyway that's it for my little ted talk, lol. Thanks for hearing out a random amateur coder's and aspiring artist's ramblings.
Adobe got caught for breaking the law by spying on the world and got sued for it. Along with one of their workers getting caught for buying recording equipment to record minors in the female's restroom at the church he worked for. He just got out of prison.
Great Video, appreciated. ❤
7zip is the one which opens all three popular formats nowadays and I switched fully to it when I saw it can open .rar files. Also no nag-screen.
Packing is still good for folder uploading but might as well not use the compressing feature to potentially pack and unpack faster. Then again .zip is fine because it's also lossless and Windows (+phones) can handle it by default.
Was considering buying it just to be able to say "I paid for winrar, what about it" 😂
Hahaha, quite a flex
Giga chad move
I use winrar because it has a friendlier ui than 7zip. I’ve tried converting over before but it’s just not the same. Also the stack of books is gold
yeah i also use winrar because that ui is friendly
Literally a right click context menu isn't that hard to use.
@@Mrshoujo speaking facts. though win11 makes it more annoying to get to. more clicks, but it is what it is.
@@kazesh9148 I mean, that's just Win11 in general
@@Mrshoujo no books tho :(
I think a big thing for archiving dropping off is that OS' are starting to integrate archiving and unarchiving in their own systems
Y'know, I've always been a 7-Zip kind of guy, but WinRAR actually does have an interesting amount of history behind it
Paying WinRAR because it's the moral right thing to do. 🚫
Paying WinRAR because it's a massive flex. 😎🤑
paying for software is immoral
@@TheLemonMasterYT what
proprietary software restricts the free flow of knowledge and safety, the only solution is to use libre alternatives
@@TheLemonMasterYT So I guess I better fire everyone in my company so we can become reliant on patreon as freeware indies.
Not everything has to be open source, you know?
@@TheLemonMasterYT might as well make paying for food immoral too since some peoples are starving
Cool video, I also like the plan that WinRAR has followed. Anyways, now I'm using 7-zip because it's free, without any license Edit: By "without any license" I wanted to say that it has a free license and by "now" I wanted to say that I began to use it recently.
Fair enough
Same here. 7-Zip is far superior
7-Zip is far superior to WinRAR and free
7zip here
I use whatever archiving program comes with KDE on Linux
When you download a lot of emulation, music off bandcamp, and also supply creative stuff like music, art, animation and the like you still generally see a lot of winrar.
it is absolute necessity for me still just because at least in most things i hang around, compression is still good in keeping download times faster, and just feels more organized to upload a rar or zip of something rather than a whole folder or uploading individually. at least imo
Then just use 7Zip?
@@getsideways7257 I wasn't necessarily commenting on winrar in particular, more just compression in general.
Another way to avoid the popup window is just to use another utility that supports opening RAR files . . . personally, I use 7zip. One thing that is curious is that 7zip isn't more popular, as it can compress as about much as RAR and has no nag window. Although to be fair, these days these types of formats are used more for storing many files in a convenient package rather than saving space, so ZIP is the best option for the vast majority of uses.
The freemium model worked a couple times on me (with other software, not Winrar). I used some software that was free for home users, but not businesses. I liked the software so much, I got my job to buy licenses so I could use it there.
Archivers are still used as there is no way to directly download a folder from the internet, only a file. The reason for WinRar's decline is that a) .zip format is now integrated into Windows, and b) there is 7-Zip, that has its own format and also supports .rar and .zip, and is actually free no questions asked.
LOL, turns out you do need a third-party program even for ZIP files tho, there are rare cases where explorer.exe will crap out due to path limits!
you know that you can download folders without compression through the Internet, right?
@@meow_meow_J Uh, how would that work? Files are not "inside" folders from a filesystem perspective, they just have a "parent directory" and may be anywhere on the disk. Yes, pure archiving formats without compression do exist, but not directories themselves.
@@erikkonstas I am pretty sure you can do it, have you tested this
@@meow_meow_J Test it how?
I used WinRAR for years. About a year and a half ago I actually purchased a license because it helped me for so many years prior and was not super expensive and I wanted to assist the developers.
There is still tons of software and websites which use the rar compression; and winrar also works for other file formats, not just rar compression which windows doesn't support which makes it great.
I really love WinRAR. I'm one of the few who bought a license. It really didn't cost that much, especially compared to a lot of other programs.
Or you could use 7-Zip, which:
1) Is free and open-source
2) Has no popups
3) supports more formats than WinRAR licences purchased over its lifetime
4) Has been that way for a stupid amount of years, I remember using it in middle school
7zip gang! I switched to 7zip couple years ago and I havent switched back since then.
7zip has stability issues though, especially with older compression techniques.
im so used to winrar that when i download 7zip and uninstall winrar just to try it i just don't like 7zip
@@DGTelevsionNetwork never experienced a single one
I temporarily switched to 7zip about 7 years ago, but I didn't like it that much. For me, the UI was somehow more inconvenient. I guess I had learned to love all the small features of WinRAR. Anyway, I switched back a few weeks later after noticing that 7zip took almost one hour to compress a big folder with a lot of files into a ZIP, which WinRAR compressed in under 10 minutes. (The compression tool built into Windows even took multiple times as long as 7zip trough.) Anyway, that might well be a problem of the past. I am currently using 7zip at work, but I am not compressing that large folders, so I can't really judge that.
WinRAR is pretty much baked into my every day use.
I'm using VBscripts to automatically make backups, encrypt file names, set a password, store it on a disk and be able to easily replace original files with the contents of the rar file.
With Winzip or other compressors you will run into problems if you're expecting privacy/security/control on your file.
I only ever learned about winrar when I started emulating older video games. Rar is the most common compression format used for those games.
Well, i use 7-zip. But i appreciate WinRar for their file compression methods
Same
I appreciate the nice looking pile of books icon
Use 7zip to compress winrar
I have both 7-zip and WinRAR, among several other compression agents as well. often when sharing multiple files I will create a .7z, compress THAT file into a .rar, compress that file into a .zip, and finally compress the .zip into a tarball. Its like putting a lot of padding on a package you ship to ensure it gets to its destination in one piece!
same here, WinRAR has a pile of books but 7zip is open-source
Your channel is one of my favorites on TH-cam. I enjoy watching the content you post.
Do you think he has researched the topic? I recommend you look up X-modem, Y-modem, Z-modem, SEAlink (communication protocols) to start with
Then PKZIP, ARC, 7-ZIP, RZIP and other compression or archiving backup techniques and technologies (like: JAR & XML)
Don't forget, ZIP brought up what was called zip bombs. Where you unzipped the archive and it exploded in gigantic file sizes. It was always funny on April 1st but not while you were at work. Lol
I feel like this YT channel keeps churning out videos that are not fully researched. Only because he stops looking up facts or pre-history of the topic and just jumps to a conclusion either of his own or found elsewhere.
Please try looking up other educational videos, because this is definitely entertainment only imo
Thank you so much Mouctar!
Thanks man!! You've earned my respect
I use a older version that you can get from a program called Optimizer 10.8, It includes Win RAR 5.21 with the trial period removed and FULL program with no annoying pay walls.
Love your videos glad u hit 300k😍😊
Thank you so much Trevor!
Actually legal problems are also a big concern for companies. Companies get audited, and checked for their licenses, if found they don't have licenses for the software they use, they are in serious trouble
really? my mother not so long ago how the company she works at uses pirated licenses and free vercions of services cuz is way cheaper
(we're from mexico btw if that helps to make sence)
@@xxizcrilexlxx1505 Hola
My company use a pirated and non pirated softwate, non pirated for core network and pirated for everthing else, has no problem during audit
@@midnighteclipsed2738thats very interesting actually
@@xxizcrilexlxx1505 yeah, main reason being the non pirated one is more harder to implement for more broad use, soo they use the pirated version for non core system since its way easier to implement
thank you for enlightening me bro i subscribed i learn alot🤭
thank you for this info, I've wonder about this for the longest time in my life
also I've been using Winrar to decompress my ISO file when im emulating games
I don't use WinRAR anymore, but I remember when I first found it and was like "Aww man its only a trial??!!" only to find out later that it just kept working. Now a' days, I use 7-Zip as it works on the majority of platforms. To answer the overall question though, I still use file compression software on a daily basis, but not because I actually need to compress files. I use it because its far easier to transfer multiple files to friends, family, or customers that way.
I will prefer the open source 7 zip today, but In the past when I didn't know much and needed to make archives we knew about winzip then learned about winrar. But now that open source 7 zip exists it was best to use it as open source is community software with code available online.
Yes 7zip is better. Winrar is nostalgic
"Only two things are truly infinite, the universe and a Winrar trial...actually I'm not sure about the universe"
-Albert Einstien
also remember that this is a lifetime license not a yearly/monthly one like Adobe, MS-office.
Used winrar for nearly 7 years now. Haven’t paid a dime and still works like a dream
5 years for me and same ,
and I don't even " notice " the window that opens everytime asking me to buy . cuz iv seen and closed it so many times it became just muscle memory that I automatically do without even thinking about it xD
you and literally everyone that every downloaded it
@@CrimsonAkatosupport the developers please. Show them some love
@lukman7108
Do buy a license to support them. They've done so much for you
300.000 subs congrats
Thank you so much man! Couldn’t have done it without people like you!
been jumping between both winrar and 7-zip since win xp days ran into a few files 7-zip supported that WinRAR did not but I will always respect winRAR for what they've done.
I mostly use winrar to just compress folders, to send a smaller size to someone else. Mostly this is faster, and just easier. (It's very easy to big files over the internet this way.)
Why not 7zip though? Also why make .rar files when .zip does the same with more compatibility.
@@Chronon88 I am making .zip files with it.
@@Chronon88 rar is better
Yeah trying doing that in an ISO 27001 audit and the pop up getting seen by the auditor. Non conforming paperwork fun
Hahaha
I think WinRAR is still useful today because it cuts down the time it takes for file or software to upload or download from the internet by reducing their size or space.
I can’t believe a WinRaR type of compression is not a main feature inside of Windows after decades
How has Microsoft never just made their own?
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@@KokoroKatsura ok
WinRAR is not a file format.
I use winrar, also we all use it at work. I work at, what is also a 'very lean' software company. We make about 4 million in revenue a year, while having about a dozen workers.
We just slowly add features to and update a software thats been servicing hundreds of companies, many of which are also fortune 500 companies, since like 1991. The company has been around for a while, and has met a lot of companies, and we work just pretty much anyone who ships goods. This software company, we sell packaging/palletization/truck-loading optimization software.
We just charge companies a few thousand up front for licenses, and charge smaller yearly fees for mainetnance and updates for that license, which just lasts forever as long as you're paying your maintenance subscription, which you can let lapse too. You don't need too much at all to keep businesses like this afloat, as long as there's at least someone who still has use your products.
Thats actually supriseing that winrar seems to be on its way out. Im not super tec savey and I might not be in the know, but being able to download smaller files is a must for me at times due to my ISP giving me data caps and also the download speeds not being the greatest where i live.
No other shareware was the godfather, winrar merely adopted it
Which one?
@@LogicallyAnswered Shareware software was massive decades ago, like the original version of DOOM had a shareware version available.
@@danielyoung_ Yes but shareware was typically a demo version. You'd have to call and pay the developer for an unlock code for the full version. So WinRAR was never shareware.
The reason I don’t use winraw is because of 7-zip it works for my needs and is open source
Thank you so much it was very helpful
Respect to the developers.
I have sort of used Winrar's interface as my operating system's GUI. I was bored and Windows got corrupted, so rather than fixing or re-installing Windows like a normal person, I configured Winrar to boot in place of explorer.exe and used it to browse and use my files.
Using Store compression method is still useful grouping hundreds or thousands of files even if there's no need for a full compression to save space.
I actually did buy a WINRAR license and I gotta say it's definitely a cool story to tell at parties or to friends. The reason why is maybe a little weird but I think most people can get behind. I like to pay for good software. I've bought things like WINRAR, xpadder, affinity photo, and 4k video downloader for this simple reason. They're amazing at what they do and I genuinely wanna support the creators. Especially if it's reasonably priced.
Was this before 7zip?
@@Chronon88 Nah, I just never really got warm with 7zip so I've always used WinRAR instead
Who would say that at a party?
I've always loved Winrar, I never really NEEDED it (even still) but I've used it for as long as I can remember, and in my early 20s I happily bought a license as a small thanks to the devs :)
Why is the dislike button on your comment up words??
I am still using WinRAR for game modding, for like Farming Simulator’s mods are mostly packed in RAR or ZIP files, and also use it on older computers. I am a tech nerd with huge collection of phones, tablets, computers, and so on. And I sometimes really still need WinRAR.
Winter is the software I use for game mods archive. Good stuff.
WinRAR is an incredibly nostalgic piece of software to me, I remember following TH-cam tutorials on how to get Minecraft mods working back in 2013 and the tutorial recommended WinRAR. I've been using it ever since. Heck, I never even upgraded WinRAR. Still rockin' 3.60 after all these years. Can't bring myself to upgrade, it's too nostalgic.
2013? Nostalgic?? Lol noob. WinRAR was already outdated in 2013. 😂
2013???? My pc had 256 mb of storage that was in like 2002 ffs im old
@@namenotfound34 Don't worry my Windows XP laptop in 2001 was a clunker 💀
Man minecraft and nostalgic... You are sooo young mate
That’s half of the reason why most of us even downloaded Winrar anyway. To extract those hacked .rar files 🤣
I remember the free version had cut features, like you couldn't use all advanced features, so i think the paid version is functional better.
I have used 7zip for years now so i don't know about the current state but i think it's probably the same now.
Video game mods still very much love winrar so that the modified content can be shared in a neat little package every time. So I don't think it'll stop being used any time soon.
I think the plethora of completely free alternatives has more an impact on the decline of winrar more so than the idea that people are compressing their data less. A lot of things come as a packed file when you download them from the internet. So sure somebody who only uses Microsoft suite and a web browser may not need it, but I doubt that any of those people are the sort of people who used winrar to compress files for smaller file sizes in the first place.
*I use both 7-zip and Winrar...*
There are pros and cons to both. For my use case I use 7-zip to batch uncompress files I selected (i.e. CBR to folder). I find 7-zip works best the way I have it set up. I use Winrar to batch create RAR files from folders (which is not obvious how to do BTW).
Honestly, what's wrong with 7zip? It's actually freeware, still gets regular updates, it's light, the .7z format arguably has more support than .rar and is maybe only slightly less efficient, with both being quite a decent bit more efficient than .zip.
But as was mentioned in this video, who really needs the compression in this day and age? Like, a couple of MBs off of a 100s of MB archive. I don't use archive files for compression, I use them so I can easily have a collection of files put into one place, I could use .tar if I wanted to. Or occasionally to password-protect sensitive data
It is necessary when you have absolute limited data
@@mearetom I'd be genuinely interested in any real world applications where the % difference in space makes a significant difference in this day and age?
Compression is really only useful for downloading large files with slow internet
It helps when downloading games that are like 200 gigabytes in size
Steam does this
It's not even freeware, it's open source which is even better! The good thing about it too is that it can extract RAR files
it comes in handy once in a while not so much for compressing files, but just sending one file in an email.
Reaper is another software that uses this strategy, it's a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) for making music and the sort. It's great and i do plan to buy it, even if i don't have to!
Once I got a job, I started to appreciate the work of other people a lot more. I've been buying software and especially games that I pirated in the past. Pirating is not sustainable for the customers in the long run. Respect the effort that goes into creating excellent products like winrar.
Yeah, I only pirated ☠ when I was super poor student. I pay now
Hopefully I'll be able to pay for stuff I like in the future , I'm very broke still
the only game I bought was Minecraft only because multiplayer is very fun and I already had a friend group I could play survival with , if it wasn't for them I'd never go out if my way to buy since I would have nobody to play with
and yeh other games I play are all free ones,
tho some games I love to play once in a while are not even available anymore cuz they are PS1 or older stuff . which unfortunately in that case my only choice is emulators and pirating it . sucks but oh well
WinRAR is easier to use, especially the function to extract in a folder directly from the context menu.
And if you really wanted to get rid of the license message, either buy it or pirate a license key.
all archiver software has that feature... just like all car has wheel
@@WahyuSetiawan-sz4lc 7zip uses a submenu which takes just a little more time
Nowadays I'm an IT Scientist. Back then I started using Winrar for installing Minecraft Mods. And I'm still using it today.
Somehow I love my past. :D
I had fun playing games and it kinda helped me getting my job.
I appreciate WinRAR, as it was always superior to WinZip. That said 7zip has had a performance edge for years and doesn’t cost anything to end users. It’s the first thing I install on Windows.
Winrar will probably not die any time soon. It’s almost essential for mods.
7zip
Yes everyone knows that we need to pay for it because it gives you an annoying message each time you open it up but no ones does it anyway 😂😂
Hahaha
Nothing beats having the little books icon
What makes this sadder and kinder funnier is the fact that it's the first time I've read or more like seen that winrar message and read it or heard someone read it in full for the first time ever 😂🥺
I use Winrar and i love it.
Lossless compression was most definitely not a new thing in 1995. PKZip launched in 1989, ARC was launched in 1985. They weren't the first either.
Whenever I do finally have money, I try to support developers of things I couldn't previously afford. Only time I don't is if it's from a very corrupt company I don't want to help feed.
Unfortunately, I am making too low to be able to help support rn, but in the past I did and I intend to continue that practice. I wanna pay youtubers that help me too. As a TH-camr myself, I intend to ask them if they have a better place I can send tips so they can keep more of what they send. TH-cam takes such an enormous chunk out of super thanks donations that it's so sickening... I don't have the heart to tell anyone that sent me a $50 super thanks that TH-cam kept $25 of that...
One thing to keep in mind I most game piracy sites and abandonwhere sites compress all their files with RAR compression to make I easier to download and most sites that you can download mods for video games also use it because it can clump 10 files together and make it easier to download.
there is more to why scene / piracy sites use .RAR , the ability to have to only redownload a single corrupted .RAR factors in too
One of the first software that I always put on my pcs. You end up needing it one way or the other.
7zip is way better. It's free, open source, doesn't look 20 years old, and has much better compression.
@@cronchcrunch yes but we are used to it, even if it is not the best anymore I will still use it because compressed file are not used a lot anymore and I have been using WinRAR for over a decade
@@cronchcrunch im more used to winrar sorry..
I mean.... unless you use any of the numerous other, better, free options out there. Winrar sucks in 2022. Use something else.
@@EmirMoquette True.
I got my first pc last month and I thought it was a glitch 🤣
As soon as I realized I need a file manager for mods and stuff I immediately found winrar, been using for 4 years and I dont think I'll ever switch
Bro you got the story quite bad, forgot to mention that one of the biggest pillars of its popularity back in the 90-2000 was the slow and unreliable internet connection that eventually would make uploading and downloading files way better.
Good Video 👍
Winrar is still useful in file downloads. Smaller games use it vary often. Granted using it to save space is not really used for that use as much amymore
I think your argument that piracy is reason why windows is popular is wrong, it's a factor but I think the mean reason is that it was easier for any user to use this gaining traction in office and personal space. Then as it got more wide spread it got all the software that anyone required for their use. Also windows was often the first os most people used. Linux is usually free so should be easiest to access but the ubiquity of windows means on pc windows is king.
I think it comes down to the fact that the average Joe is too dumb to figure out the difference between edge and explorer, let alone install linux.
@@damnstupidoldidiot8776 linux hade to mutch problems in my easy try it atleast 3 times but its corrupt every time some times the grub is not working some times updated and so on. idk the last time i used it was with KDE and bevor that with ubuntu buts still its not my favourite as a second platform maybe but not for daily use :)
@@dieselvonderdorf6916 I haven't really experienced many issues, maybe change distros? Or get someone else to install it for you.
Not gonna lie I thought it was a scam program but looks like I was wrong
Hahaha
I think there are still a lot of use for winrar and true that for everyday people they wouldn't see how annoying it is to close the topup screen everytime.
In companies even for new ones it is easy to zip a file and send it to your colleagues instead of sending the whole 4gb file you have on your device, it is faster to upload and download that way using services in the cloud, ofc it's only useful when you aren't at the workplace yourself where you can simply put it on the server and all, but like now at work at home the cloud is a go to.
Bro this title and thumbnail made my heart sink I was about to open and banking app and look for winrar subscription payments😂
Hari: vdo is about winRAR
me: As an Indian i am out
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@@LogicallyAnswered it is because of its price which is high for a middle class 🥲
@@hariharpuri1362 7 zip better :)
_The long, bulky form of data:_
It always seems impossible until it's done. Nelson Mandela
_The much more efficient method:_
char{1}="I";
char{17,23,31,34}="i";
char{2,30,35}="t";
char{3,10,16,27,33,38,44,51}=
char{4,7,43,58}="a";
char{5,25,32,47,57}="l";
char{6}="w";
char{8}="y";
char{9,11,15,21,22,37,48}="s";
char{12,13,26,42,46,56}="e";
char{14,18}="m";
...You get the idea
I use WinRAR because while I don't need file compression for storage reasons, I do need it to send files over the internet, or to download files from the internet. Most mods for games I play use compressed files on file hosting sites so that you can download their mod for free and they don't have to spend money hosting their own file sharing site.
winrar for some reason specifically locked me out of the 'extract files...' option, so now I have to use 1 extra step to move the zipped file to the desired location then click 'extract here'