Reclaimed_gkf
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can someone tell me the purpose of passwords?
WinRAR allows you to encrypt files and filenames within a RAR by using a password. This comes in handy to avoid having files reported by authorities. They (copyright owners) sweep the WWW searching for file names and keywords. Encrypting filenames doesn't help them along in this mission of destroying our uploads. Whether it actually makes much of a difference is up for debate, I suppose. The biggest factor is simply renaming the files that are ** DEAD LINK REMOVED ** to something more abstract.
If you see posts requiring a password, I'd suggest getting in the habit of (a) writing down the password before your download finishes, or (b) bookmarking/shortcutting the post for future reference. Most people on the WWW do not use passwords anyway, so it's not much of a problem.
As for images of fully-clothed women being posted; I'm not completely opposed to this. I quite enjoy seeing Christina Hendricks' huge tits attempting to burst out of expensive dresses. Technically the photos feature no nudity, but for a lot of celebrities that's the best we'll ever get: non-nude cocktease photos.
Personally my biggest pet peeve is when people post short crummy low quality animated gifs of segments of videos that have already been posted, or videos that are easily & readily available... Talk about a downgrade.