I've downloaded GTA IV there where 2 iso files and the second is the one with data3.cab and i can't extract it!!
could anyone help me I've used many programmes but it doesn't work.
Don't bother trying to pirate software if you don't understand the basic concept of a disk image.
Also, take a glance at the
forum rules.To save you the trouble, I'll quote the relevant portion:
Downloading or using a program (e.g. torrent / P2P program) to download a copyrighted software program, game, movie, song, TV show, book, or any other content protected by copyright laws.
I suggest a easy fix however- buy the game, if possible. Or don't play it. simple.
I don't want to buy GTA 4 myself- I could run it easy. So I instead opt to play GTA3 and San andreas when the fancy strikes me (not often, after all the reformats I keep losing my progress
).
If I may extend my current saying of "computing within your means" it also applies to games- "game within your means". Are you pirating for the sheer thrill of getting something free? Can you simply not afford the game? Some cases have been reported as having been dropped on their heads as children, thus reducing them to decrepit individuals with ambiguous moral alignments and a penchant for blue cheese. Whatever the case, and whatever the situation, pirating software, under any non-ambiguous accepted moral code, is not justifiable.
Why do I say this? What if people cannot afford 200-300 dollar software?
Well they can afford 200/300 dollar computers, can't they? often times people will spend thousands on a new PC build, only to pirate the OS and programs, claiming they cannot afford it. Well, perhaps they should have considered that in their pricing, rather then spending thousands on the hardware and making the questionable declaration that "they can't afford" software. Nonsense.
They pirate because they can, because it's easy. It's also relatively easy to kill a person, few quick slashes, boom. dead. So why don't more people do that and take their wallets instead of downloading software? Oh yes, because their moral code says that killing a person isn't "as bad".
And I can sympathesize with the logic. However, what I don't sympathesize with is the attempts at justification for pirating by referencing other crimes. People don't perform a burglarly and then claim, "well, it's not as bad as murder!"... why? because it's obvious that it is not. Relative comparisons can be made that seem to favour almost any argument.
The common justification is that the person "won't buy the program anyway, so it doesn't affect their revenue". Alright. That makes sense, on the surface.
however let us look at a best-selling game, Super Mario Bros. 3. It sold.. .well, a LOT of copies.(might have been in the 30 million or so range). Now, beind a cartridge based game, and the limited PC technology of the time, it simply wasn't possible to "pirate" the game. (sure you could steal it, but that is conceptually different according to the ambiguous moral code that I am trying to bereft). Now, let's pretend that it was possible to somehow pirate the game. How many of the 30 million or so people who actually ended up buying the game would have pirated it and claimed that they never intended to buy it in the first place? the problem is claims can be made about what a person would have done in a separate situation but without actually being placed in theat situation any conjecture about their response to the situation is pure conjecture and often can be manipulated to suit whatever purpose the conjecture served.
I additionally might add that trying to pirate software blindly- that is, without an idea exactly what your doing- is exactly how people get infected with the nasty viruses. Blind trust in an unknown entity that is giving you that 400kb Call of Duty ZIP file that is "super compressed" and blindly allowing UAC to continue when the enclosed EXE requires admin permissions.
hmm, well that was an interesting rant.
