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RapidShare Goes Down Locally

rapidshareOver the past few hours many users of the Swiss-based file-hosting service RapidShare have been unable to reach the site.

The problem appears to be affecting UK customers. RapidShare is currently looking into the issues, but as of yet are unable to find a problem at their end.

“We have thoroughly looked into the reported cases and cannot find a cause on our end,” RapidShare told TorrentFreak.

“Traffic on our servers is normal and the majority of our customers should be able to use our services without any interference,” the company adds.

RapidShare believes that the issues may be routing related.

“Most reported cases seem to be coming from customers in the UK (we are also aware of some cases in India, Spain and Greece), most of which are using British Telecom as their provider.”

“This leads us to believe that this could be a provider/routing related problem, but we are investigating other possibilities as well to be on the safe side and help our customers to solve this issue as quickly as possible.”

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  • PlatinumC

    Hopefully got blocked :)

    • Guest

       RapidShit sucks since they started licking MAFIAA balls.

      • Guest

        Since when did Rapid start “licking MAFIAA balls”. All they’ve been doing is trying to avoid legal compilations and keep their site up and going.

        • dj

           Agreed.  They’re definitely the smartest out of the bunch. 

          I bet it’s all an act though, playing the “we hate piracy and will stop at nothing to fight it”. 

          While it may of looked like they were dropping the free user download rate to combat this so-called piracy, what it actually did was make them more money, because people wanted to pay the extra cash to get faster speeds. (pirates WILL actually pay for a decent service if one was available, something the MPAA and Hollywood don’t seem to understand.)

        • http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell

          Well, the problem with Hollywood and the MPAA is that they LOVE their overpriced DVD and Blu-Ray sales.

          They are going to have to realize however that time is moving towards “All you can eat” download of movies, music and TV shows at X dollars per month and get on board for that. Either that or die.

    • Abb

      what is your problem mate.

  • Anyone

    ohnoes, has bending over to the MAFIAA hurt you? :/

  • Nick

    Hopefully got bankrupt, another useless file-hosting website.

    • TDXI

      Are you claiming it’s useless because parasites cannot make money from it or cheap bums cannot use it free? I’m just curious which one you are.

  • http://techfleece.com/ Richard Gailey

    Yep, getting ‘This web page is not available’ when trying to reach the RapidShare main page. Crappy service and don’t use them, but thought I’d share info.

    Also tried it when connecting through a NL server via my VPN. Same results.
    Same in Chrome, FF and IE. (latest builds) ISP when connected normally (no VPN) is  BE Broadband (not BT)

    Get the same result when accessing RapidShare via a US server (based in Wilmington)

    • Fernalo

      Working here from Netherlands so no problem accessing the best file-host

      • http://techfleece.com/ Richard Gailey

        Was just sharing what I was seeing on my end from the UK. The server that I was accessing through is based in Amsterdam.

      • Sick

        if you define “best” as greedy, overpriced and back-stabbing then I agree, it’s up there

  • BritishDude

    No problem here, iv got BT as my provider.

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  • http://www.twitter.com/echoman74 echoman

    lol good see what bending over to the mafiaa does. Hopefully this is the end. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Spycrab-Spy/100003325871905 Spycrab Spy

    fine here in bt too

  • bluerain

    was not working earlier, works now

  • nbobs

    Disconnected when I’m with my O2 ISP but not when I switch to a UK proxy server.

  • Nyth

    It no longer requires captcha and no wait time for the next download.
    Rapidshare has improve much.

    • http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell

      Yes, but I believe they still have that “30kbps if free user” which is a dealbreaker for me.

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  • rediffusion

    Has Rapidshare gone down again?

  • http://www.facebook.com/Stars1100 Robert Wood

    Rapidshare is also down in US, I have been unable to get on for the last 2 hours.

  • Anno

    i think rapid share is the smartest company for file sharing, lets face it if they leave the links active for more then say 24 hrs the lawyers will say there like mega upload but if you quick you can get your files fast as lightning and until to today i never had a problem with there service and will continue paying for there service

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