Did you ever know anybody who purchased WinRAR?

Hi,

Does anybody on the forum knows exactly why the trial period of WinRAR never expires?

There can be two reasons for this;

1. Either this is the coding Malfunction which never expires the counter.
2. Or this is some kind of a business strategy.

Given the first possibility, why did the developers never rolled out any hotfix?

For the second option, what exactly are they accomplishing by just showing a message at the startup? The functionalities are all the same and they do work all the time.

What is your say?

ive been wondering my self i think its weird i never have to pay for it but im not going to complain lmao

When I first got winrar back in 2011 I got the buy thing and almost did until my buddy said I can keep using it without paying, so I was close, but I didn't. I don't know anyone who has either.

I mean, there must be some people that buy it. Otherwise itprobably wouldn't still be a thing.

Personally no, but I saw people on eBay do it.

Guess Americans want everything legit.

Not really, i think that's the worst purchase ever xD i prefer using 7-zip anyway.

I remember a kind of urban legend abut someone's mother that bought it as a gift to him

I don't know anyone who purchased the full version of Winrar and you're right it is pretty strange, why would they lock it after the 30 day trial. I am guessing because of 7zip since that one is free.

i bought winrar because i thought it was only a 10 day access

I don't see why people would still use Winrar, I use 7-zip. No longer getting that annoying box telling me to buy that shit.