Makes sense. People finally have tons of disposable income to spread around. /S
Or maybe is just that everything else is so ridiculously expensive that WinRAR seems like a good deal now.
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2026
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Its big companies that screw them the most. I have worked for multiple multi billion dollar corporations that will screw Team Viewer over even though its how we get customers into their down servers. And it wasn't one data center, its every data center I have ever worked in (30 years in)
If the license is free, they will screw them.
*I know TV hasn't been around that long, but WinRAR has been and it was another company I saw screwed.
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Lol, windows users.
Is it possible they are getting MORE paying people because lets face it, nobody RAR's the day to day stuff.
This seems like an increase in files on peoples computers like: ididntwantopayforthisgame_crack.rar
I actually paid for it back in 2017. I had been using it for free a looong time by then.
Yeah, about a decade+ ago I paid for mIRC and WinRAR as a way to pay them back.
I must be the only one who ever paid for it.