WINRAR basically operates on the Spotify model of providing the users with the software and then asking them to pay for it. "Pehle istemaal karein phir vishwas karein" got too real!

Revealed in an interview with CEO Burak Canboy regarding the prevalent issue of online piracy, the company certainly knows that many users continue to use their software for free even after the trial period has ended. Even though WinRAR is packaged as a try before you buy software, it seems that most of us believe it to be freeware instead. Nevertheless, using it after the trial has expired is absolutely cool with them and we may even be bold enough to say – encouraged.

Burak Canboy explained that online piracy has always been hurting software developers since the dawn of computers. This problem, on the other hand, has not hurt as much for them since they already have a very liberal way of preventing their users from switching to pirated and potentially dangerous alternatives.