Unarchiver Provides LGPL RARv3 Extraction Tool 183
An anonymous reader writes "Free software to support the RARv3 archive format has been listed on the FSF's High Priority Projects list for some time now. We've always had ways to create and extract free archive formats, using tools like GNU tar and Info-ZIP. The RARv3 format is proprietary, so we don't want it to replace these tools, but it's not uncommon to see it used for distributing multimedia files over the Internet. That means the lack of free software to extract RARv3 files has been sorely felt. We're happy to share the news that there's now a free software project to fill this gap, and we can mark this item as done. The Unarchiver is a small collection of software written by Dag Ågren."
Yay piracy! (Score:1, Funny)
Compressing my HD rip to save 5MB on a 50GB download!
Excellent! (Score:2, Funny)
Finally there is a Richard Stallman approved way of extracting my pirated pornography, movies and TV shows on my Linux box.
Using a proprietary tool on an OSS system is so unethical...
Re:Seems like the distributor needs to be slapped (Score:5, Funny)
Because, you see, some children have two daddies or two mommies instead of a mommy and daddy.
And sometimes, nerds like to watch movies where both mommies and both daddys are in the same room giving each other special hugs. But they like to watch them for free, so they wind up downloading the movie as a 50 part .RAR file.
"Legally"? Is this a new word? (Score:0, Funny)
I'm a pirate, so I really have no idea what the hell you are jabbering about. I don't need you talking no trash, I do all the work around here. When I see something I want, I TAKE IT!!!! Capiche?
fuhgetaboutit
Re:Yay piracy! (Score:5, Funny)
pirates have traditionally favored rar.
Your hearing may be faulty. Pirates have traditionally favored har and yarr!