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  • It’s only piracy if you grab a cutlass and storm the local shops. It’s time to call it what it is = digital theft / running unlicensed software / whatever. If someone hacks into your accounts, I doubt you’d call them a pirate for stealing all you personal videos and pictures, taking over your steam account, ‘borrowing’ your netflix, and so on. The whole thing is deeply uncool.

    Personally I wish the laws would change to make copyright non-transferable from the original artists, who deserve reward for their efforts but shouldn’t be a meal ticket for others. I’d also like to see abandonware legitimised - if folk can’t buy it then it should be fair game.













  • That’s correct: I use FOSS where possible, and if I must use closed source it must store data in an open standard.

    As you insist on evidence: I can create and open 100% of my archives in all systems I use now or in the foreseeable future without installing additional software. RAR fails that test.

    The other reason: RAR is a closed format, and like I said there are better alternatives that are not proprietary.

    Likewise your philosophy is that RAR is best and you are free to have that opinion also without providing evidence.