Comments on: RapidShare Limits Public Download Traffic to Drive Away Pirates

By: The_unknow_guy

The_unknow_guy — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 09:23:00 +0000

Yeah, people still use Rapid share.com even me, just cant say why though.

I find them the best filehoster in the world even with the 1gb limit.

By: MICKSTOKOE

MICKSTOKOE — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 14:56:00 +0000

you lot are a load of babbies everyone should know by now that the goverments of the free world allow large company’s to promise 100% till they get your money and then reduce the promised service to at least 50% of that oh and F**k any refund thats out of the question THATS LIFE.

By: Chas

Chas — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 18:37:00 +0000

This limit does not apply to people on your contacts list. RS Premium users can just add each other to get around it.

Add me –> psyatika at gmail dot com

By: thatguy

thatguy — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 08:01:00 +0000

RIP rapidshare, you were the king once.

By: Erros1

Erros1 — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 08:17:00 +0000

Well, for a company that made millions (Billions?) from piracy this sounds to me like a ploy to get the RIAA off their backs long enough , so they find another target, and RS can go back to their old ways. Because their old ways is the only valid business model for this type of file storage company. The only reason users paid for premium accounts was to be able to download copyrighted material at high speeds, without the exposure of the torrent system. RS et al conveniently never keep IP logs of downloaders, else the police would have had them a long time ago, and the company would go under.
The latest public traffic capping , if no lifted (as I expect in a few months), will most likely drive away most (if not all) of RS paying customers very quickly. We should see a parallel rise in torrent traffic. The question is, how long can RS sustain without revenue.

By: Oksalem

Oksalem — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 04:58:00 +0000

I’ve been buying premium for years with the new restriction for download…I want my refund…and what is the point for file sharing if you can’t share with the rest of the world.

By: Misc

Misc — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 22:44:00 +0000

Rapidshare have probably lost a majority of their customers following this business model, it wont be long until its gone for good.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 09:36:00 +0000

It’s a pity this will do absolutely nothing to stop copyright infringement in the wider context because there are so many other similar and better services.

Rapidshare have ruined their business for nothing and the only users who will really suffer, yet again, are the legitimate users.

By: Httan

Httan — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 12:37:00 +0000

the one and only solution is to forget RS once and for all .

R.I.H (Rest.In.Hell).

By: rt

rt — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:15:00 +0000

Well, there’s always premium link generators or a bittorrent client(configured properly to run through a tunnel).

i went the bt route, works fine for me

rapidshare probably did this under great duress, because nobody could be that stupid on purpose.