Perhaps 7zip? It has a command line interface and meets your other requirements too I believe

-Eóin (February 25, 2012, 12:14 PM)

Not only that, but it can encrypt headers in the compressed file, so unlike in zip files, you can't see the filenames inside the archive without decrypting. I like it, so thanks for confirming my so-far favorable impression.

What it does not have is a switch to compress each file into a separate archive. I need that to minimize the amount of data to upload, since my outgoing bandwidth sucks. Still, the best candidate I've seen so far. I wonder if the authors are susceptible to bugging for new features :-)

I think that was rather well put :Thmbsup:

-Jibz (February 24, 2012, 01:18 AM)

And I agree, but there are limits to where these arguments apply. Not everything is speech (hence free), and not everything is protected.

I lived through the early Spam Wars, it was issue #1 or very close to it for a long time. Just to give an example, you can't put your slogan (commercial or not) on the wall of my house without my permission. That's not speech, it's trespass. (And I even believe it is sometimes justified, as when the speech is politically motivated graffiti in an environment where you have no other venue to publish your speech. But never when it is simply commercial.) You can't hit me in the head and say you're only expressing your views, either. This is only to illustrate that the mere invocation of free speech does not always apply, and believe me, it's been tried and done to death.

If a doctor recommends a therapy to you as the best, while in fact he's only recommending it because he gets the nicest kickback for doing so, that's not free speech either. You can't advertise sugar as a cure for cancer. Etc.

In the case of "sponsored blog posts", the deception is similar. I'm not really interested in how legal or illegal that might be wherever you or I live. It is unethical to the max and it makes the world significantly worse for all of us. A healthy dose of hate for these guys is entirely warranted.

Oh, one more thing.

You can't blame someone from maximizing their income in this tough economy

-Innuendo (February 23, 2012, 03:00 PM)

Please tell me you are trolling me! This is exactly what spammers used to say. The original spammers, back in the day. "Can't blame us for trying to make a living, we're entrepreneurs just like you!" They were laughed out of court on many occasions, but more importantly, of course I can blame them  for their grossly unethical business model. All analogies are brittle and all that, but this is very much like running a garbage disposal company where you take people's money and dump their garbage in a local river. Customers are happy (garbage gone cheaply), you are happy (money coming in), and everybody suffers.

Come on, I can't believe you were serious there.