Rapidshare; it's a love/hate relationship!

[Jiff]

Fawk you guys why are you still using CRapidShareto upload shit?!?! :confused:

I can't be the only one fawken sick and tired of having to wait X amount of minutes before I can download somthin else!! :045:

Fawk there's tons of better File-Hosters out there that dont have download limits... and if they do they're a whole lot fawken higher than CRapidShare's. :106:

Oh yeah, Happy 4th to all the American SG-1'ers out there :055:

:D

[KanMan]

Same here fawker....... keepmyfile, mysharefile, megaupload. thats how i roll.

[JadeGiant]

:lol: I think it has something to do with some RapidCheck thing... still I'd prefer to see othe file hosters used myself.

[raijin1]

I continue to use RS for a couple of reasons, mainly I still have an active RS premium acct... Aside from that, I still find RS to be more reliable than many of the other hosts... I occaisonally check some files I upped to RS several months back, and find they are still active. I can't tell you how many times I click a link from another host (sometimes not even a week old!) and it is expired/deleted/no longer works...

[durcam]

What is this "crapidshare" you speak of , some new disease? hahahahaha

[funk]

i agree with you jiff. but you have to think that people know about other filehosts by now and they are still using rapidshare for some reason. i think the main reason is so that they can keep their premium account running for free by getting points for their uploads. as far as reliability and speed, keepmyfile is the shit, but mostly i just use sharpuploader to put them all on imagevenue.

[PhoeniX27J]

I use rapidshare 'cuz I got a premium acc. and there's loads more on rapidshare...and I find some of the other hosts slow and annoying...sometimes on megaupload or something 20kb...that's just pityfull...

[tommykhu550]

i have experienced what raijin1 goes through. the other uploading sites tend to delete or make my upload link usable, so instead of having to re-upp it again, i just prefer to use rapidshare. they are very reliable.

[Mr.T]

RS is stable & consistent... unlike soo many other hosting services.

[D'Artagnan]

I like Sexuploader, last night I was getting 140kbs.

If I upload its going to Sexuploader, right after my Premium Account runs out at Rapidshare lol.

[pholmeskc31]

i'll use different host besides RS but if the file i want to dl is RS and i dont have a RS account i'll dl one file at a time even thoigh i dont like it. when i post something i try to give people a choice to use the RS link or a different host link. but i used to bitch about RS and now i dont see the point.

[Mr.T]

is that site f'n down again?!?! they're almost as bad as us. :dammit:

http://www.theboxset.com/images/reviewcaptures/892cap012.jpg

[Mr.HotStuff]

is that site f'n down again?!?! they're almost as bad as us. :dammit:

http://www.theboxset.com/images/reviewcaptures/892cap012.jpg


no one could be as bad as us LoL

[ghost]

NEWS FILE SIZE 300 MB!!!!!!

BAD NEWS FOR FREE USER IN THIS HOST!!!!!

Important for free-users:
Download-accelerators are only supported with a PREMIUM-Account!
Free-users will have a speed-brake as soon as the download passes 50 MB.


Your IP-address has already downloaded 3300 KB.
You have reached the download-limit for free-users. Want to download more?
Get your own Premium-account now! Instant download-access! (Or wait 132 minutes)

PLEASE BANNED THIS HOST ....
THIS IS PATETIC...

BYE!!!!;)

[Parker]

They are getting a bit out of hand. Lengthening the wait time even after a small DL and imposing brake speeds (which is a joke) is going a bit to far. People use RS because there were no brake speeds for free users. I guess T will have to decide on this, but a lot of people buck-up and but the Premium Accounts, so I don't know.

[musclepower]

Rapidshare sucks,I don't like it at all.

[funk]

i don't really like them either, but why ban them? it's still a good place to share very large files.

the best way to encourage other people to use alternate hosts is for you to use other hosts so everyone gets them used to them

[RAZORMAID]

I disagree with banning RS. Let's face it. The majority of the people who cry about it are those who want to get uninterupted loads of free porn from loads of free links. There's nothing wrong if the filehost decides to clamp down on the freeness and offer a premium account instead. If people are too cheap to get one of those, then simply go to another filehost instead of asking for it to be banned. RS is still good to me.

[keano]

RS has served me well too, it still is difficult to get the 10.000 points I need to extend my account though, since rapidshare is so popular, We shouldn't ban them simply because over half of the internet uses rapidshare, and we all got great files from that very same source. Take Care All

[BassMan]

I agree rapidshare sucks, with all the wait time wasted, but there are ways around it. Try the rapidcheck program! I really dont like the idea of paying for free porn. Whatever happened to Peewee's filehost review? There should be some alternatives there.
SO here's the question if not rapidshare for filehosting then who?
Rapidshare with all its shortcomings has still seemed to be the reliable filehost that's probably the reason why we use it so much.

[jdrock24]

SO here's the question if not rapidshare for filehosting then who?

There's a bunch of them. I use keepmyfile. But there are many others: Rapidsharing, megaupload, etc...

By the way, I was looking for that "file hosting review" thread the other day too. I wonder what happened to it? Did it get lost in the move?

[funk]

...keepmyfile...megaupload...
two of my favorites^^

File host review thread

[BassMan]

Thanks Funk!

[D'Artagnan]

Rapidshare sucks.

[Hard Drive]

Never been a fan of crapidshare... but alot of people use it...

[Parker]

Both sides of this arguement have good points. But to those that have an account and try to keep it without paying for it by getting those 10,000 points a month: this clamp down might hurt you because the leechers that get you those points are going to get fed up with the longer wait periods and slowers speeds.

[KanMan]

Well as long as it takes for some people stop leeching and start uploading their own stuff or reuploading to different hosts, were still all fucked. Unless of course you grab a handy dandy premium account :)

[Ptit Philou]

I'm not a fan of Rapidshare too, but there are enough other file hosts to not be dependant of Rapidshare no ?

[wetskin]

Well folks,

Lets face it. If you do have a premium account with rapidshare, it does offer the best possible upload and download functionality of all the file hosts I have tried.

The only realistic alternative is keepmyfile. But I am tired of having keepmyfile waste 15 mins uploading my file and then giving an error screen. Thats never happened with rapidshare.

And if they give good service they have the right to charge - bcos they have to pay someone up the line too. I dont use rapidshare only for porn but also other uses and the yearly fees they charge to me is no inconvenience when I easily spend that much amount on a casual day out.

I definately dont think it should be banned as its the best file host out there in my opinion. And they have every right to charge when they provide excellent service to those who pay.

I know there could be a nasty war triggered by this post. But frankly tell me is there any other filehost that can measure up to RS in terms of stability and reliability?

At least rapidshare allows free downloads after a wait - there are quite a few file hosts out there which always give me the msg "All download slots allocated to your country are in use. Try again later". This never changes no matter how many times I try and what time of the day I try

On another note I guess we also should be obliged to Mr. T to help upkeep of the servers.

If all active members contribute just a doller each for the servers monthly upkeep I guess we will be able to avoid shifting hosts every few months plus set up our own version of rapidshare too.

Heck I dont know about the membership details but if I am not mistaken even half a doller from each member should be enuf.

They cant charge us a fee because of reasons best left undiscussed but whats there to have a informal obligatory collection setup.

I know that kind of amount can get a dedicated server with acres of storage and no monthly bandwidth caps.

[wetskin]

I disagree with banning RS. Let's face it. The majority of the people who cry about it are those who want to get uninterupted loads of free porn from loads of free links. There's nothing wrong if the filehost decides to clamp down on the freeness and offer a premium account instead. If people are too cheap to get one of those, then simply go to another filehost instead of asking for it to be banned. RS is still good to me.

Milady, I second your opinion.

[Ragnorak]

While rapidshare does have its uses, some people like me for example, loathe to download multiple files. I for one am unable to purchase a rapidshare account due to some bizzare reason my bank account doesnt not allow for online money transfer hence it is unusable with Paypal hence i cannot pay for it.

There are some others on the otherhand who unable to use any other file sharing service for a variety of reasons and are stuck with the only choice of rapidshare.

So while many of us loathe rapidshare it is still a free service just like all the other current free file sharing services, and we should at least be thankful of that.

[Mr.T]

because there were multiple threads along the same discussion lines in regards to RS, i've merged them both. their (RS) service and reliability is stable enough, i cannot find another comparable one. because of this, i would rather not ban (censor) their links here. i would like to censor those links which expire files in a short amount of time. in addition to RS, i personally user hemenpaylas.com and filefactory.com almost exclusively. as for wetskin's suggestion... that would be a discussion for another non-public forum section. i'd also like to mention that we're with a good hosting service now. they came very highly recommended and i went through a two-week question/answer session with them prior to our move. i wanted to make sure they would be able to offer us what we need. short of some major disaster, i don't forsee us moving again anytime soon.

[Jiff]

short of some major disaster, i don't forsee us moving again anytime soon.

go0d to hear :D

[wetskin]

go0d to hear :D

Yes thats good news. Where do i start my new thread Mr T?

[henkletterman]

Yes I agree
Rapidshare is crapidshare
Please use the other ones
Always something with this Rapidshare.
henkletterman.

[diodo2004]

well!! Rapid works but nobody wants to wait to dl anything else!!

Mega dont work for me. Maybe with a proxy web, soo I have to stay with Rapid :(

[Mr.HotStuff]

with the way they are going on now - everyone will have to pay to be able to use the service

[Mr.T]

Where do i start my new thread Mr T?
for a topic as that, i would prefer to have such discussion in here (http://www.sputtergutter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=21) for now. ;)

[Ptit Philou]

with the way they are going on now - everyone will have to pay to be able to use the service

Damn someone said what I fear the most......I agree with you Mr Hotstuff, and I'm afraid that in a short time, I won't be surprised to see that we have to pay for any file host......

[wetskin]

Damn someone said what I fear the most......I agree with you Mr Hotstuff, and I'm afraid that in a short time, I won't be surprised to see that we have to pay for any file host......

Remember guys there is no such thing as a free lunch. You got to give some and take some.

Examples:
Even here on SG u need to give something (quality posts) to get access 2 higher levels where u get better stuff.

Most of you do pay for your internet connections in order to access SG and similar sites and the general Internet - I bet your broadband connections dont come free.

If you guys save stuff on your hard disks (and I am sure most do) you need to spend on harddisks and the resulting computing resources.

So just get used to the idea of paying in cash or kind for every service that you avail of in this world. Either pay for instant unlimited downloads or pay in terms of time (waiting in line ) to download stuff.

I think my time is precious. So, if i invest in a rapidshare acct I can que up my downloads in a download manager overnight. Therefore I can use the time and bandwidth saved during the day working effeciently so that I can make more money (which pays for more than the worth of the rapidshare account). And I can use the rapidshare acct forother purposes too as my premium acct files dont get deleted till my acct expires or I delete them manually.

Think of my logic carefully - bet it would make sense after a while.

wettie.

[Bartess]

Hi,

Can someone tell be the difference between rapidshare.de vs. rapidshare.com? Do we need to sign-up with each one separately and pay them separately?

Thanks.:102:

[MPXX]

I believe they're the same company as rapidshare.de advertises and promotes rs.com...it could be that rapidshare.de has reached it capacity a few times now, not allowing any more uploads. So they added rapidshare.com.

About subscriptions, I'd assume you'd use the same login for .com as .de

[Jiff]

RapidShare.De has reached capacity - u can't upload to it anymore. I hear all download links are go0d until sometime in the new year.

If you have a RapidShare.De account you can sorta transfer it over to the .Com site.

:D

[Hard Drive]

I always thought rapidshare.de was the German version... and the .com was the American version.

[Bartess]

Thanks for all your help.....understand this a little better!

[ThaSpitefulWun]

Anything I have to worry about??? Ip tracking blah blah??? I finally decided to give rapidshare a go with a pay account but I was wondering if I should worry about dl the stuff from their servers now that they will have my information on file??? may be a dumb question, but I want to ask before I buy...

[hungarianstud]

I had an acount at one piont in time. I never had any problems with them.
I just don't know about what they are doin right now with the two sites so i am goin to wait.

[ThaSpitefulWun]

ehhh? two sites?

[hungarianstud]

Ya the two site thing. But it seems like there download speeds have droped quite a bit. I just mean that i will wait till they get all the bugs fixed and stuff.

[Welsh Maximus]

Stud,when you had an account,did you ever down at Full speed?
Speeds are consistenly good with RS for me,but it never,ever downs at what should be my top speed...just wondering if there`s a difference
with an account :039:

[hungarianstud]

The only good thing that i noticed with a premium acount was that i didn't have to wait to download and i can have multiple downloads. But the speeds where the same. This is my major problem with rapidshare. There are many ways to get around the rapidshare crap but some are really tedious. This is just my opinion of this place though. There are probably people out there that swear by it.

[Welsh Maximus]

That`s what I was looking to know...Thank you http://img1.imagetitan.com/img1/1/36/hi731.gif

[boob123]

One advise, Rapidshare has two upload sites (Rapidshare.com and Rapidshare.de), Rapidshare.de has become redundant at this moment in time due to the hardrive space being full, which means you are not able to upload any files and you are only able to download Rapidshare.de files. Since everyone has now moved over to Rapidshare.com (i.e everyone is uploading files using .com) I would advise you to obtain a premium account from Rapidshare.com.

Right now the download speeds really suck at that site, but I'm sure it will pick up and be as reliable as the old Rapidshare.de.

[ThaSpitefulWun]

can you still dl from rapidshare.de with a .com account???

[hungarianstud]

Yup, if you have an acount at .com you can download at .de.
They moved everyone that had a .de acount over to .com as well.

[ÜberDork]

can you still dl from rapidshare.de with a .com account???

Yup, if you have an acount at .com you can download at .de. They moved everyone that had a .de acount over to .com as well.Not true. Initially they had some kind of reciprocity but that ended quickly.

Got this email reply from RapidShare.de . . .

This is an automated reply. We hope it will answer most of the questions our customers have.

RapidShare.com and RapidShare.de are completely different companies. It is not possible to download files, use folders or collector's accounts from RapidShare.com at RapidShare.de.

Your RapidShare.com login is not valid on RapidShare.de. Your account at RapidShare.de will not be extended if you extend your account at RapidShare.com!

[hungarianstud]

Not true. Initially they had some kind of reciprocity but that ended quickly.

Got this email reply from RapidShare.de . . .

This is an automated reply. We hope it will answer most of the questions our customers have.

RapidShare.com and RapidShare.de are completely different companies. It is not possible to download files, use folders or collector's accounts from RapidShare.com at RapidShare.de.

Your RapidShare.com login is not valid on RapidShare.de. Your account at RapidShare.de will not be extended if you extend your account at RapidShare.com!

Wow this is new news to me. I thought they where goin to allow people do go freely from both. I don't understand why they did that since .de is not accepting anymore new accounts. Wierd in my opinion.

[ÜberDork]

Weird in my opinion.I agree. It doesn't make any sense to me. It seems like they are shooting themselves in the foot.

First they (.de) give away tens of thousands free, 2-day accounts to spur activity and promise that we have plenty of capacity. Then all of a sudden they are full and the .com site comes into existence.

Now I see this on the .de site:

Unfortunately all drives of RapidShare.de are full right now. In the future, RapidShare.de's direction will point even more to conventional webhosting. This means that uploads will be possible again very soon, but only premium users with a paid account will be able to upload their files. Due to this changes, the premium-points feature has been cancelled completely.

[Welsh Maximus]

I wonder how much coin the$e dudes have roped in over the past couple of years :064:

[elmar]

I wonder how much coin the$e dudes have roped in over the past couple of years :064: lol For sure more than enough; and bringing it directly to the bank next-door - these Swiss guys aren't too dumb:066:

[ÜberDork]

RAPIDSHARE.DE UPDATE: Due to this changes, the premium-points feature has been cancelled completely. We have applied an account extension to every customer with collected points. We have also given thoughts to premium customers with less than 10000 points. Accounts with 5000 points for example have been extended for 15 days.

[moka7772002]

premium is better

[supraman_2]

I went to d/l a file from RS and this is the code I got.

http://www.imagemule.com/uploads/rapidsharerpzn.jpg


I was looking at it like wtf?? Where's the code? Seems like a bit much. :d'oh:

[hungarianstud]

That hurts my eyes.

[ghost]

RAPIDSHARE.....:mad: :mad:

[rocky509]

I guess its for christmas offer..Hope it change for the better next year..

[Jiff]

it to0k me about 15 seconds to see that dahm code - skrewed up! :D

[ThaSpitefulWun]

wow that was crazy... i haven't seen that kind of mess yet, thank goodness

[darklighter1]

Those codes have been messing with me for about two years now. I'm colorblind and it's murder trying to see the codes. Actually the newer ones were getting better but this one is pretty outrageous!

[ÜberDork]

It's amazing how difficult RS makes it. From the 180 seconds you have to wait for a major DL to begin to the crazy DL limits. It's truly a service that you love to hate.

[Mr.T]

i've seen a few like that, but not often. i'm getting these new huge letters and numbers that are easier to read. i think it depends on which server your grabbing from maybe - who knows.

[supraman_2]

I seriously stared at that thing for half a minute before I saw it.

[armanisuit]

ive been getting that lately, and i've had to adjust the contrast on my monitor just to see it. Guess they are really paranoid now...

[elmar]

I seriously stared at that thing for half a minute before I saw it. Some should explain these guys the difference between human and machine readable http://www.my-smileys.de/smileys3/567.gif

[Mr.T]

here's what mine have been looking like lately... not too bad.

http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/6800/untitledtp5.png

[boob123]

I can see the codes pretty fine, but I can understand what you mean by "over board" :D .

[RAZORMAID]

It seems I can only download one rapidshare link per day before getting that overload message.

I don't think we should complain though. For one, we basically get files for free, especially software and music and save a shitload right there. Secondly, a paid RS account doesn't cost an arm and a leg.

[supraman_2]

What about all the other hosts that offer the same service for free?
I mean rs is pretty stable and all but there are others that have pretty close to the same reliability.

They seemed to have upped their wait time frame and left everyone with smaller limits. I don't mind it other than it takes a long time to get multi part files.
Plus I can't read the codes half the time. :D

[RAZORMAID]

I vaguely remember something that allowed us to be notified when RS relaxed their download restrictions, does anyone know what I'm talking about?

[desolation]

Those codes have been messing with me for about two years now. I'm colorblind and it's murder trying to see the codes. Actually the newer ones were getting better but this one is pretty outrageous!
Same here man, some of them are shocking... At least these are black and white, makes it easier

[mokkah]

Yeah, I guess there must be a lot of bots...but the other "security" feature was already pretty good

[aristotle]

I paid a few bucks and got a premium account it is worth not having to put up with that crap mate

[Italguido]

.... my eyes hurt

[Luggy]

i've never really had a problem with rapidshare...Megaupload on the other hand wants you to download their toolbar before u can download any files from them.

[JadeGiant]

i've never really had a problem with rapidshare...Megaupload on the other hand wants you to download their toolbar before u can download any files from them.

I've never been asked to download their toolbar :dunno: Have had few problems using their services.

[supraman_2]

I thought this was random enough to share.

http://img168.imagevenue.com/loc422/th_06485_nuts_122_422lo.jpg (http://img168.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=06485_nuts_122_422lo.jpg)

[sousou]

I thought this was random enough to share.

http://img168.imagevenue.com/loc422/th_06485_nuts_122_422lo.jpg (http://img168.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=06485_nuts_122_422lo.jpg)

a friend of mine once got the word 'FUCK' ...................... :D

[rocky509]

rofl rofl rofl lol

[Doomfury]

Is anyone else having problems uploading/downloading from rapidshare recently? I will upload a set/vid and everything will go normally but the vid/set wont be on my list of uploaded files. Its almost like I didnt upload it. This has happened a few times this past weekend and I am wondering if anyone is having problems with rapidshare? Let me know and thanks!

[supraman_2]

Working for meee....

[Ragnorak]

Recently the rapidshare sites have been REALLY slow and some of my download managers have been unable to establish connections to the rapidshare site.

[supraman_2]

Ok bitch time again.

The new codes they have are terrible, you can barely read that crap at all.
I keep having to wait extra time cuz I enter them in wrong.

[durcam]

They say they don't , crapidshare in particular , my ISP connection is "un-capped" , thank you comcast :) , but when I try to UL say a 50 mb file it say's it's done in 5 - 10 seconds but it just hangs ther for like an 1/2 an hr before giving me the DL link page , WTF ?

http://img111.imagevenue.com/loc587/th_92024_Screenshot1_122_587lo.jpg (http://img111.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=92024_Screenshot1_122_587lo.jpg)

Very annoying , too much speed ?

[rocky509]

Yeah same with me.It hangs.Oh well takes years too upload.

[Cookiepuss]

I dunno what Rapidshare's problem is. Through torrents I've hit 100+ kb/s every now and then when uploading, but whenever I try uploading shit on Rapidshare I'm lucky to even hit 60+ kb/s.

[Ptit Philou]

Hello my friends !

I have one question for you.

Does one of you has at least once paid by credit card for a rapidshare premium account ? Is it safe ?

Can I trust rapidshare ?

I used to pay premium rapidshare account with an e-credit card (a credit card made for internet payment and proposed by my bank, a single use card), but it seems to not work anymore, so I'm hesitating to pay with my real credit card.

Thanks for your answer !

[ÜberDork]

It is safe. You pay through PayPal.

[cute_teach]

I have an account that I have had for over two years now. I used to extend it one month at a time; but the last time I extended it for a year.

[farbio]

i extend mine every-so-often...when there's enough content i want to grab that warrants me not spending a month to pull down one vid & its definitely safe, feel good about supporting rs:)

[RAZORMAID]

It's safe and worth it...there's so much free shit out there :D

[Ptit Philou]

OK ladies & gentlemen, thanks for your answers and your help !

Will do it tonight when going back to work !

[Humpie]

Have a paid membership and no problems :p

[Random Bob]

getting a rapidshare account changed my life.

[Ptit Philou]

So it appears I cannot extend my account....it's sad !<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p>
<o:p></o:p>
Neither my e-credit card or my real credit card numbers are working to afford a premium membership.<o:p></o:p>
Maybe I was not clear in my first message, but I had not a paypal account, I used to pay Rapidshare simply with my e-credit card via Paypal (because it's Paypal who's in charge of the payment process between you and Rapidshare AG) and not with a paypal account.<o:p></o:p>
<o:p></o:p>
So, since last year, three times on the run, I have extended my account, and now, I cannot anymore. <o:p></o:p>
<o:p></o:p>
I think the problem is coming from the website page managed by paypal when you pay by credit card. I think their system has a problem when it checks your credit card number....because I have tried my e-credit card and my real credit card on other websites, and both are working perfectly well.<o:p></o:p>
<o:p></o:p>
Maybe no one cares (lol), it was just to share my "experience" if someone else among us was facing the same issue.<o:p></o:p>
<o:p></o:p>
For now, I have extended my account for one month thanks to the points I have collected. But in one month, if I face the same issue, I won't have any alternative...<o:p></o:p>

[BassMan]

getting a rapidshare account changed my life.


very funny


No worries Ptit Mr. T's got us hooked up!

http://www.sputtergutter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=37559

[Atesa]

Dos anyone have a membership?

[durcam]

Crapidshare blow's chunks , they keep upping the wait time , even though I haven't DLed shit , that's why I never post there , scam or maybe they've become a private members only club ? They still blow :)

[BassMan]

Hi guys, I wanted to check with the rest of you to see if rapidshare's site is down or if its just me?

http://rapidshare.com

:dammit::meuh:

[Mr.T]

Down for me too.

[durcam]

Yup !!

[funk]

I'm just c&p'ing from another forum THIS IS ALL HEARSAY...

Update on wiki 17:45 gmt

As of 19 January 2008 16:00 GMT, Rapidshare AG's servers were shutdown by anti-piracy authorities in Germany. More than hundreds of Rapidshare servers were seized from their offices in Berlin although no arrests were made. Sources said, authorities are contemplating pursuing legal action against users who distribute and download pirated copies of software and movies from these servers.

Issues

Some ISPs intentionally block sharing sites like RapidShare to make better use of bandwidth.

On 19 January 2007, news broke that German collections agency GEMA had claimed to have won a temporary injunction against both RapidShare.de and RapidShare.com. "The latter is said to have used copyright protected works of GEMA members in an unlawful fashion,".[4] To date RapidShare has claimed not to have any knowledge of the content uploaded by the users and of not being in a position to control the content. Through its injunctions the District Court in Cologne had now however made it clear to the company that the fact that it was the users and not the operator of the services that uploaded the content onto the sites did not, from a legal point of view, lessen the operator’s liability for copyright infringements that occurred within the context of the services, the spokesman added. Currently rapidshare is not working.

Both RapidShare.de and RapidShare.com sites are currently still operating and the consequences, if any, of the claimed injunction have yet to be seen. So far, they have not been sued.


Another Notice from RS: We are sorry for the problems caused by a major crash, at 5pm our servers went down by a massive d-dos attack, this made our server crash. The only way to solve this problem is by formatting all our storage (1,6 petabyte in total). We where able to restore rapidshare accounts but all files need to be reuploaded, Greetz Rs Staff

these are my infos from wikipedia:

As of 19 January 2008 16:00 GMT, Rapidshare's servers appear to be offline. There are rumors that Rapidshare has been shut down by the authorities after a court order, however, court records do not reveal any issued Rapidshare court order as of yet. Rapidshare technician Steven Gircham has commented on this issue - "There are rumors concerning attacks made on the Rapidshare.com servers. There are also rumors that Rapidshare has been shut down by a court order. These rumors are false. We would like to apologize to our users and inform them that no data has been lost. There have been some hardware issues as a result of high bandwidth and server overload. We are doing our very best to resolve the hardware issues, and users should expect uptime by midnight tonight (GMT)"

Furthermore, Rapidshare was forced to use a new anti-piracy tool which detects filenames, also within archives, and compares them to warez release announcement sites, torrent listings and eDonkey links. If the filenames match, the tool will automatically delete them. This tool will run for the next five hours to delete everything possible. Premium and Collector's accounts will not be lost, but no one will use them after nearly everything will be deleted (there are only less than 2% legal files hosted on the RapidShare servers).

[durcam]

Oh damn !! Hmmm , which story is the correct one ? Strange , when they shut down before , usually an annoncement , now nada , strange.....

[ÜberDork]

From what I can gather, the .com servers are down.

RapidShare.de is up and working fine.

[BassMan]

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/19/2237230
looks like GEMA the german version of our RIAA is suing rapidshare one year from today.

http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/83948

rapidshare.de is loading very slow for me.

"There are rumors concerning attacks made on the Rapidshare.com servers. There are also rumors that Rapidshare has been shut down by a court order. These rumors are false. We would like to apologize to our users and inform them that no data has been lost. There have been some hardware issues as a result of high bandwidth and server overload. We are doing our very best to resolve the hardware issues, and users should expect uptime by midnight tonight (GMT)"

this sounds the most credible ^^^

If there was a seizure there would probably be more actual news on this.

http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original/article_212125521.shtml
Rapidshare IP address
80.239.151.250 (http://80.239.151.250)
The antipiracy tool rumor sound like BS
(there are only less than 2% legal files hosted on the RapidShare servers).
I doubt even rapidshare knows how many legal files are on there servers. Furthermore suing millions of people globally is ludicrous. I wouldnt be surprised if all these news sites have reporters blowing this out of proportion for extra hits on their sites.

[durcam]

Stop panicing pervs , it's back up :)

[BassMan]

All the hype was indeed bullshit it was def a DOS attack. Before they shutdown, their connections were very slow and intermittent.

[BigDaddy_GFS]

RS has been really slow lately. I was wondering if it was their machines, or MINE.

[BassMan]

My connection is still slow as well, on some downloads its only letting me use 1 thread per download. Whereas it typically lets me use 10, significantly speeding the connection up 10 times the regular speed.

[Creamy Goodness]

i've just joined crapidshare, i sold my soul

[gremmy]

Then you have rapideshare account it is COOL!!!

[SINTECH]

Not much need for membership with JDownloader unless you're in a hurry. :shocked:

[ANtares69]

It seems that the login for rapidshare.com is not valid on rapidshare.de ! Why ?

[ANtares69]

Having an account is really a must

[bhinn]

Dunno. I thought they were the same.

[Bawookles]

Hey, all.

Well, I was happy to pay the $10 subscription to these forums but it's a bummer to me that so many photo rars are through rapidshare, under a free account you use up your downloads pretty quickly and then have to wait a while.

So I have to get an account on rapidshare too to enjoy a lot of the photos on these forums? That's a bummer.

[hixxy]

If you start a collectors account on RS, and post lots of stuff you can make 10,000 points quite easily and get a free account.

[Bawookles]

Thanks for the info, didn't know about that.

[Sniper]

Also, dont forget JDownloader (http://jdownloader.org). Just collect your links and let the program do the rest. It takes care of all the downloading from almost any host site you can think of. Just set it and forget it.

[Bawookles]

Thanks for the info, Sniper!

[AdamBasenberg]

I have had an account on RS for two years, and I have been very impressed with the ever-increasing quality of the service they provide.

[jb1997]

Yes, thanks for the info on JDownloader, will give it a try.

[bigbadbob]

no, its free. you need to be patient though

[snowboarderz4life]

It's a conspiracy man

[sturdy]

works fine for me bro..

[dohpuri]

megaupload > rapidshare. Rapidshare is too slow!

[thomaservo]

it all depends on the connection. at certain times of the day, i can get up to 1 MB/s from rapidshare. other times, it's down to about 200 KB/s. megaupload does seem to be more consistent, though.

[naidokar]

i agree, megaupload rules!

[Ice32]

I like not having to wait to download, and I'm trying to see if I can make the account self-sustaining.

[SINTECH]

Megaupload doesn't make you wait either. :) Both are good.

[thomas.joo@gmail.com]

Or you can use freerapid ;)

[stp52x]

For a few months I didn't have to wait for megaupload (i've always had to wait for rapidshare), but out of the blue the wait returned. at least its only 45s versus 15m

[mughalhp]

i hate it. 1 download and your done. need to use other sites.

[2ca2ca]

I really like mediafire. quick and easy.

[Jamesbkf]

Im with 2ca2ca.. rapidshare constantly gives me that "servers overloaded" message..

[robotic]

I'm a megashares guy myself. YouSendIt and sendspace are fine by me; I find using rapidshare or megaupload sends the WRONG message. That said, in a rare occasion, I'll put up some of my own personal collection if someone asks for something exceedingly rare and specific.

[sypoch]

because its fast and cheap

[Dark_Ivy]

I do not like rapidshare to upload porn. The server always remove adult materials quickly.

[SHRAMAS]

I hate rapidshare !

[Xenoblind]

I have to agree, rapidshare sucks so much at this point.
got to wait the night to get some poor kbs, but im not premium as u gessed

[htyfan]

Im using MF. But I'm afraid of geting my files deleted. I have more than 15 GB uploaded to one account!. All of my -copyrighted material & porn- files are stored with encrypted names and password protected.

Im I safe of getting my files deleted?

[Xenoblind]

Saw several thread in there about hosts and file deleting after a certain amount of time etc...But cant remember all hosts charts especialy for mf.

[Rembrandt]

Mediafire is good for avoiding long waits, but I also like drop.io. The only thing I don't like about it is the captcha phrase to test one's humaness.

http://drop.io/

[ababackar]

I hate Rapideshare... Too much deleted files :-(

[booty_chaser]

I hate having to wait 15 minutes between downloads. megaupload only makes you wait 45 seconds

[debis1735]

Can not understand why use rapide.....:angry:

[mirsadinjo]

I like not having to wait to download, and I'm trying to see if I can make the account self-sustaining.

megaupload

[moldar]

megaupload is way tooo better than rs

[hurleesurf@yahoo.com]

Its outdated compared to MU.

[blacky_55]

If just one of these upload-services would get a major breakthrough...

[Stevonius]

I've got a premium account for Rapidshare because that's what so many people use. That way I don't have to wait between downloads. And Megaupload is great and has awesome download rates even if you don't have a premium membership, so I don't see the point in paying for it.

[jj0076]

I've had a premium account on rs for a while now. Really like it but more and more people seem to be going elsewhere now.

[Arku]

IMO, RS and HF still seem to be the preferred upload sites for nonporn related stuff, which is why I still have a RS premium. HF, SM and DF are in a fierce battle for domination in the porn area. I prefer neither of these hosting sites, they all have horrible download timers especially HF. MU is still one of the best, although not many people seem to use it, and so is MF. What I also like about MU is the option to stream or download movies.

[nxman]

Wither we like it or not it's the rapidshare era!

[bosefornose]

I love rapidshare for downloading material, they have everything. I also tried hotfile, for a lot of asian movies this is what they post it in.

[dirtym]

Rapidshare's worked for me.

[hixxy]

As of June 29, 2010, RapidShare is changing its product and payment models. In future, the costs for RapidShare accounts will no longer be tiered according to time period; instead there will be five packages with differing features. These packages will be paid for with a new currency known as "Rapids". In order to grant our customers maximum flexibility when choosing the type of package, they will be able to switch between packages on a daily basis and hence select the features that suit them best at the time.
All previous Collector's accounts will be automatically converted into free Premium accounts on July 1, 2010, thus making it still possible to use the RapidShare service without charge.

Read full breakdown here

http://rapidshare.com/news.html

[Sniper]

Could this be the downfall of RS? Possibly, as I think the main benefit for RS was the points for the collector accounts. Will be interesting to see.

[hixxy]

Well now that Rapid Points have gone, the only way to extend an account is by paying...

[pmisbook5]

Could this be the downfall of RS?

I feel like, with 10 petabytes of stuff on there and hundreds of millions of clicks, it's going to be hard for them to go away quickly.

[Creamy Goodness]

it will be interesting to see which of the other hosters benefits most

[ai2kas]

On February 24, 2012 Rapidshare announced due to a surge in illegal traffic of the response of Megaupload seize, In it's effort to "push back" the amount of abusive traffic It has limited all free accounts to a total of 30 kb/s maximum download speed. In order to lift the download cap it suggest users to purchase a RapidPro account. Fuck that shit!