mister-e-muss:

So what happens in the Tron world if programs get compressed into zip files. Do they just get sudden on-set dwarfism or something?

One of my favorite theories is that this is why Rinzler is shorter than Bruce Boxleitner

And also? File corruption within a zip file can go much worse than when uncompressed. Which also has some implications for how badly poor Rinz got corrupted.