What File compression format you use ?

I use both WinRAR 3.x Rar and WinAce. I compress everything three times. One with WinRAR auto text-graphic-audio compression, one with forced text-graphic-audio compression and the thind one with WinAce. I keep the smallest file out of them. Most times (about 95%) WinRAR wins. So my most archiver are Rar archive. I consider myself as a Rar 3.x user.

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Jesus Christ.

Only warez puppies compress stuff three times.

I use both ace and rar. Rar has a better frontend, and the options to boot. Lately, ace has picked up on this, and started including some of the better features.

I use ace more and more, now. Rar is only for all the old stuff I have saved back to cdrom, and am too lazy/strapped to go through and convert it all to ace.

And to top everything off, ace and rar don't play nicely together. More often than not, I have old rars that ace can't decompress.

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Correct! I am a warez collector. My most warez stuff are from different warez shops of my city. I can't download warez stuff from net much because I use 33.6 kbps dial-up connection and it's very expensive here. I use CD-R discs only for backing up warez.

I distribute warez to my friends and also collect warez from them. I don't distribute them in net. The reason is same- my slow and expensive connection.

I am also a disk space saving freak, this is the another and the main reason for compressing stuff three times. I can claim that nobody will be able to use disk space more efficiently like me.

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In my country, software shop = warez shop. They do their bussiness openly. You will not find any shop here that has leagal copies of software. If you try hard, you may find legal copies of Windows and Office.

In warez shops you find illegal copies of alomst any OS, software, games, MP3 CD, Audio Video CD and DVD. Price of software depends on disc number. Singe disc software/games cost about US $1.38. This ammounmt doubles for 2 disc soft/game. Video CDs sell at half price of software/game/MP3 cd. Audio CDs may cost equal to software CD.

BTW, our warez shop owners are at least patriot. They don't make any illegal copies of softwares that are developed in our country. I think this policy is correct.

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I wish I had a high speed internet connection (and cheaper) rather than having warez shops nereby. Warez CD's cost 2x or 2.33x more than a blank CD. I would not mind spending time to download everything.

No, all are english (US) version. Nobody knows dutch here

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divx and mp3 are nearly non-compressible. There's not much point.


What about .tar.gz or .tar.bz2?

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Downloading is like eating an apple which is just picked from the tree and getting a warez CD is eating an apple which is bought from the market. Downloaded things feel "fresher" to me than CD things. So, I like downloading. Although for everyday purpose, buying warez CD's are more practical than downloading. Just like my apple example. It is better to buy apples if you want to eat them regularly.

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MS has stopped an exported shipment of warez CDs, fining the person up to 11 years of prison with millions in debt.
I think they are serious on cracking down on foreign country piracy, so watch out yall. I personally changed my view/policy recently to buying stuff than DLing them, feels much better to get the worth.

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All pressed warez CD's available in my country (Bangladesh) come from Malaysia and Pakistan.

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I had to vote "other." This poll is Windows-centric, and I understand why you might think that the only format/utilities you need to concern yourself with are those that are Windows based (because 99% of the people on these boards probably never used an alternative OS). However, to be completey objective, you should include other formats/utilities such as tar, gzip, or even bzip2, which are available on all unix systems, and quite frankly, superior. Not to biased or anything, ;-)

WinZip for me

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WinRar is 100x better than Winzip.

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Had to Vote ZIP. I just converted all my RAR's to ZIP after seeing how winXP handles zip files naturally. I was rather impressed. However, being an old DOS hand, I'll still use PKZIP from time to time. On top of that, the added compression I get from RAR really doesn't matter anymore since hard drive sizes are allot bigger than they use to be.

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