RapidShare Removes Piracy Deterring Slowdowns

Ernesto
October 29, 2012
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File-hosting service RapidShare has lifted its download restrictions for free users. The slowdowns were implemented in the aftermath of the Megaupload shutdown and were supposed to drive pirates away from their service. However, according to Rapidshare CEO Alexandra Zwingli, they have been traded for more efficient counter measures.

rapidshare During the wake of the Megaupload raids in January, millions of bewildered users went looking for alternatives to their beloved site.

Many of these Megaupload refugees ended up as paid customers at RapidShare, but the Swiss-based file-sharing site also attracted free users who mainly appeared to be interested in downloading pirated content.

To prevent the latter group from making RapidShare their new home, the company decided to severely throttle the download speeds of free users to around 30/kbs. These slow download speeds deter pirates, the company argued.

“We are confident that this will make RapidShare very unpopular amongst pirates and thus drive the abusive traffic away,” RapidShare told TorrentFreak in February.

An interesting move to say the least, but also a temporary one. Numerama reported that many free RapidShare users had suddenly noticed a massive increase in download speeds, suggesting that the slowdown for free users had been lifted.

RapidShare confirmed to TorrentFreak that this was done intentionally.

“We can confirm that we have removed all download limits for free users, which is part of a new strategy,” RapidShare CEO Alexandra Zwingli says. According to Zwingli the company will soon release a new set of anti-piracy measures which she describes as “more efficient”.

“Even though the limit was initially introduced to deter piracy, we have since then come to realize that there are more efficient counter measures. Further details will be announced towards the end of 2012,” Zwingli adds.

During the past several years RapidShare has made tremendous efforts to cooperate with copyright holders and limit copyright infringements. The Swiss-based company is trying to position itself as a front-runner when it comes to responsible dealings with copyright infringers.

A good example of this role is the “responsible practices” document RapidShare published earlier this year. The company hopes that these guidelines will eventually become a basis for an industry agreement among the major file-hosting companies.

The above makes it clear that RapidShare is not done yet with barring pirates from its service. However, from this week the counter-measures no longer include slowing down legitimate users.

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IdiotsAreUs

Calling your service and company RapidShare then limiting it to 30/kbs for a large part of your customers didn’t really make sense, did it?
- http://torrentfreak.com/ Rob8urcakes
  
  RS can go feck itself for being deliberately anti-Piracy yet demanding cash from its customers.
  
  Don’t give these fools a bent penny guys, and let them get flushed down the gutter where they belong.
  
  All power to MEGA next year!!!
  - Anonymous
    
    considering that RapidShare’s rise to being one of the best, if not the best, file sharing services was due to the ‘pirate’ content on it, what a hypocritical position to take now. thankfully, it has lost it’s appeal to most people, regardless of what they use file sharing services for. having become an entertainment industries ‘bitch’, let’s hope that it goes down when those industries do!
    - rs sucks
      
      RS always sucked, they are good at it.
      
      P2P » RS at all time
    - djnforce9
      
      Unfortunately there aren’t many better alternatives at the moment (Mediafire is the only one that comes to mind). Most of these cyberlocker sites have stupid “regional” restrictions meaning I can’t download at all unless less people in the same country are doing the same. Some go a step further and make you wait two minutes before telling you you can’t download from them. If I have to put up with deception and can’t use the service, I’m certainly not going to buy into their premium offers.
      
      Hopefully makes it back online and gets fortified enough to never be taken down again by those greedy scumbag USA corporations.
    - Yo
      
      strange, i used to get a decent 100 to 200 for the pirated stuff i occasionally had to get off their servers…
    - Ree
      
      megaupload was siad to take up $% of internet traffic then got v’d. Rapidshare took up that much traffic then started messing with their users after some lawsuits and did not get vd.
    - http://twitter.com/EdinJack1 EdinJack
      
      like Dennis said I am surprised that some one can earn $7965 in a few weeks on the network. did you look this(Click on menu Home)
    - http://twitter.com/EdinJack1 EdinJack
      
      …..goo.gl/7QiYI
- max
  
  It sound more like: “Same procedure as every year”. First make it attractive for lot of people to download from you and then suddenly limit speeds for non paying customers.
- Guest
  
  Wrong! It’s RapidSHIT.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Zak-Kirkpatrick/22906930 Zak Kirkpatrick
  
  Customers pay money to use a service, their customers were not affected. The majority of users (or leechers) were the group affected. As a company they need to make money, so the users that pay are the users that come first.
  - sandyaj
    
    so what if “paid” users were to be the pirates though?
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spycrab

they changed it back due to lack of users i would think
- FUCKYOU
  
  That’s not logical since FREE users = COSTLY BANDWIDTH and doesn’t give you anything in return besides a big headache.
  No they turned it back on because they started wiping accounts clean and already have the paid users they wanted.
  - Anyone
    
    more free users means it is more popular to upload for the premium users
    - Guest
      
      More free restrictions converts to premium sales.
      
      That’s the freemium model.
    - FUCKYOU
      
      How does that even make sense it is more popular to upload for the premium users. Premium users couldn’t care less what free users get or don’t get. They already paid for it.
    - Anyone
      
      they upload the files for being downloaded
      
      if that doesn’t work on a host, they will use another one and buy a premium account there
  - Danny
    
    “doesn’t give you anything in return besides a big headache.”
    
    Oh and the advertising revenue……….
    - FUCKYOU
      
      Last I checked, Rapidshare didn’t do any popups, so no…Their bottomline is entirely based on PREMIUM PAID users.
  - Zack
    
    Don’t forget the ads free users can see.
  - Ree
    
    nah free users generate alot of revenue for the services. I read about this once and it said contrary to popular belief, free users are best customers. (adz pay)
  - IHaveNoBalls
    
    I paid megaupload because they gave so much for free. Felt like i owed them. I would go out of my way NOT to pay rapidshare because they caused me so much hastle in wasted time. Give stuff for free and you will be rewarded.
    - Bloaxor
      
      Respect is the best advert. Treat people as you would like to be treated, so to say.
Anyone

looks like they are dying without the pirates and try to get them back
- IHaveNoBalls
  
  They lowered their download speeds for all FREE users, in that scenario, everyone suffers, legitimate users and pirateers.
Gigi

Short RapidShare: We are losing customers fast and we know MEGA is coming.
TrT

I still don’t understand why people use RapidShare. Sure it’s fast but it’s not like you ever NEEDED the new movie in 10 minutes! Just download beforehand.
- roadkill
  
  Some of us download multiple files from multiple filelockers at once. That’s why.
torrent freakster

RapidShare is just another stupid ass kisser. By following these bullshit rules RapidShare is shooting themselves and the rest of the file-sharing sites in the foot.

If you feed the hungry dog it will come back for seconds and most likely it will have brought other hungry friends along. This time if you do not feed them you will get hurt.

You should not listen to the anti-freedom and anti-sharing trolls, abusing the system.
Should be illegal to abuse the system and cause trouble for others.

Reminds me of http://www.inquisitr.com/366905/ghost-display-at-zoo-was-racist-st-louis-zoo-takes-down-halloween-decorations-after-complaints/

Trolls whined about racism and morons listened to the complaints and by doing so further feeding the trolls and further escalating the problem.

Remember booth babe’s ? Yeah the same thing.

It pisses me off that morons and ass kissers can destroy for us all. The smart ones that do not listen to the bullshit ie piratebay also gets damaged by this.

I’m not one to agree with the likes of hitler but he was on to something. Lets force IQ test everyone. Those below the set minimum score will be sent to their own little island where they can do as they please, as long as it doesn’t bother us smart people.
I do not think they will survive on their own without the smart people around cleaning up their mess all the time.

Smart people are too timid, we really need to put our foot down and say “Stop destroying it for everyone, you moron”

We could always make a virus that will make low IQ people infertile. With no dumb people in the world it would solve A LOT of problems.
- nope
  
  I don’t even know where to begin with this guy.
- Emailed
  
  You do understand your logic is flawed?:)
  If people were to have high IQ’s there would be no need for piracy. Everyone were smart enough to make enough income. Also, you do realize attempting to protect warez by saying file-sharing should be free is a hypocritical and trollish statement in itself?
  
  If you had a job, and weren’t living off by your parents money, you’d understand why essentially nothing can be free in Capitalist model.
  - Anyone
    
    I pirate stuff I could afford, simply because I want to check it out beforehand
    
    if it is shit I will not buy it, even if I could easily afford it
    there is no reason to reward low quality
    
    and filesharing IS free, simple as that
    I use my ressources (bandwidth, electricity) to create a copy for myself
    sure, I could charge myself the few cents that costs, but essentially it is free
    
    and it works just fine
  - Pelham123
    
    “If you had a job, and weren’t living off by your parents money, you’d understand why essentially nothing can be free in Capitalist model.”
    
    Depends on what you means by “free.” There is always a cost of one form or another, true … noi such thing as a free lunch and all that. But not everything requires the presentation of scrip before you acquire it. In fact, I’d argue that most things don’t, even under capitalism.
    
    Also, if everyone had high IQs there would be no piracy because file-sharing would be 100 percent legal. ;)
That_Anonymous_Coward

Do not discount the idea that even after every anti-consumer thing Rapidshare did, the cartels still kept them on the list of evil rouge sites.
They have been hauled into court and hassled even after going well above and beyond what the law requires.
Trying to balance not being sued out of business and not making any revenue is a difficult game.
They aren’t the hugely evil people we want them to be, they are a business trying to survive. Focus your anger on the cartels and the elected officials who keep giving away your rights to get some more cash.
- InRussiaYourGuest
  
  As much as i hate rapidshare, I have to say this makes the most sense.
torrent freakster

I wonder, as a test lets DDoS RapidShare for a week. Than tell them to stop with the anti-piracy bullshit. Tell them to stay neutral as they should have from the beginning.

Since they respond to bullying and threats i think this should work very well.
If they do not listen, DDoS them for a month and than ask again.

Now repeat for all anti-piracy and anti-freedom hypocratic asshole sites

We already got enough computers for it. All we need is a program and a controller who targets the right sites
- Guest
  
  That’s a pathetic reason to DDoS a company. If they want to provent piracy on their service they should be allowed to do so. It’s their website, their rules.
  - http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
    
    Guest, the problem is that their ‘anti-piracy’ methods amount to ‘guilty until proven innocent…. by buying a paid account!’
    
    That is now how things should work.
- Guest321
  
  So you think bullying them is the answer? That makes you so much better than them doesn’t it?
Dondilly

I would have thought the most effective way of limiting piracy on free accounts (often opened with fake user details) would be to limit the monthly bandwidth usage, the number of times a file can be downloaded in a given period or limit the number of ip address ranges in a given period.

A user who uses cloud storage to serve say, podcasts is more likely to use a paid account and so is traceable and can be held responsible for account conduct.

It is always counter productive limiting speed on a free try before you buy account as prospective paid users want an idea of the speed they can achieve before parting with cash.
FUCKYOU

They just got all the people to pay as users were getting furious with the 30 KBPS. Nice business decision :)
- Gae
  
  That’s not how it works. If I go to a file hosting site and their trial service gives me a 30kb/sec download then the last thing I would want to do is pay them money and sign up. I close the page and move on to somebody better.
  - FUCKYOU
    
    Sure – that’s your mentality. Clearly not for everyone else who needed to download a bit quicker :)
    
    If you’re enjoying 300-400 KB/s what makes you want to pay 9.99 for 300 more KB/s or whatever you’re maxing. You’re already a cheap bastard, so you’re going to stick with this free model.
    - IHaveNoBalls
      
      What if you only want one file. Wanna sign up for a month for that?
  - Guest321
    
    The difference is Rapidshare is a very old company and already has an established reputation of giving blazing fast speeds to premium users, more than any other file host in the industry. New users don’t need to second guess whether they will get good speeds with premium as its pretty much guaranteed.
    
    Of course if you opened up a new company today and employed the same tactics you wouldn’t get a single premium customer. Reputation goes a long way in any business.
    - Anonymous
      
      But in this case the reputation has tarnished and lost value.
      
      Usually when I want to download something I choose the other options over RapidShare. Why? RapidShare is slow as fuck and I am not going to send them any personal details. (Who would want to risk being dragged into a kangaroo USA court?)
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Gae

You always have to have a laugh at rapidshare with how far they are prepared to bend over for the copyright companies, when each and every time the copyright companies come back and say ‘sorry rapidshare, still not good enough for us’
http://techfleece.com/ Richard Gailey

More like they realised that once Mega goes live next year, most of their current customers would flock to Mega due to RS crappy download speeds.
WonTann

Nice, its about time lol.
Anon-Yes.tk
Gma

Limited speed will help deter piracy? I mean seriously? I firmly believe that more than 70% of the file stored on their server are “illegal”. What if those pirate buy a premium account then it wouldn’t be a problem anymore for them to download those so-called illegal file.

Fuck you Rapidshare, you are just another corporate troll but just from different dimension.
Guest32

My concern is how Rapidshare can distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate use of high bandwidth without manual inspection of the contents of user accounts.

If I want to share the newest copyrighted superprerelease album with my close circle of friends, I RAR the contents with a strong password and email the link to my friends.

I can’t see what mitigation measures Rapidshare could adopt which aren’t already inherent in taking down publicly shared links.

if they can only detect upload/download of an encrypted datastream, and no link or external reference is published, there is nothing short of banning encryption that would further drive away piracy. What one can’t see one can’t detect.

It leads me to the final question: Which info does a file host log?

IP address of uploader and downloader, time stamp, MD5 hash, file name.

If the link is shared publicly or a third party claims that the MD5 hash is illegal, Rapidshare essentially terminates the account if the number of complaints exceed their tolerance.

The longterm solution to this problem is adding another abstraction layer to file hosting. Any information represented in any file could be hosted on a server. It could even be a datastore for FreeNet or another low latency network.

If the only thing Rapidshare can “see” is a large random like bitstream, MD5 and hash matching becomes worthless.
- Freedom of Speech
  
  This “another layer of abstraction” idea is awesome!!! Imagine:
  
  A server accepts an upload (the upload screen strongly recommends that all uploaded files be encrypted with Truecrypt prior to being uploaded), then generates a URL that can be used to download the file anywhere, anytime.
  
  The server slices and dices the file into pieces and adds parity bits, and the resulting shreds are stored on other cyberlockers such that some of the cyberlockers can fail without endangering the server’s ability to reconstruct the file.
  
  Upon receiving a download request, the server pulls the data back from multiple cyberlockers based on its record of what shreds were stored where, and reconstructs the file accordingly, then transmits it to the downloader.
  
  No cyberlocker can possibly know what the contents of the file might be – each one only has meaningless shreds and parity bits, and the server itself hopefully won’t know either (assuming the uploader did in fact Truecrypt the file with multiple 256-bit cascading encryptions prior to doing the upload).
  
  The US Government has admitted in court records from earlier this year that it cannot crack Truecrypt’s encryption, and no other government even comes close to the US government’s code-cracking capabilities. If a cyberlocker gets seized, the seizing government will remain completely clueless as to what data might have been stored in that cyberlocker. Awesome!!!
  - Freedom of Speech
    
    One more detail – the Truecrypt encryption key needs to be LONG and complex too… we can’t have people using simple things like “password” to encrypt the files…
  - Weej
    
    O what Madness! I’ve been toying with this VERY SAME IDEA no more than 2 days ago – I got the idea when reading up on the BlowFish encryption method – apart from it being initially tedious – once the system is in place though (along with checks to see if a filehost is down or not) this should be a pretty good solution!
    
    As always though I keep thinking, “I’m missing something out, but what?” because if we thought of this…why hasn’t anyone else?
foff

It is a financial decision plain and simple. Rapidshare needs more traffic. I have on occasion bought a monthly account on Rapidshare because there was something I wanted that I could not find elsewhere but most of my premium business goes to other cyberlockers. On one side of their mouth they are trying to say they are against piracy but on the other side it is hard to ignore the money. When mega returns they have to compete, they cannot just ignore the competition. The cyberlocker system is slowly starting to return to normal. A lot of content was lost with the demise of megaupload, fileserve and filesonic but the important stuff has slowly been reuploaded on other lockers. Fortunately the internet is international and a world government controlling everything will hopefully never happen and as a result regardless the of the legislation or enforcement of any country piracy is here to stay.
- The_seventh_guest
  
  Why not use services such as Real-Debrid?
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Himpulat

Just downloaded the latest MythBusters episode, 1150MB, took 105 seconds @ 11MB/s, I wonder what speed the RS would give on that… torrents ftw!
- Slick
  
  stupid dumb ass 11mb/s would take slighter longer than 105 seconds or 1 minute 55 seconds to download a file of 1150mb
  - Oooooooooooooooooooooops
    
    you mean 1 minute 45 secs
http://twitter.com/Anime4PSP Anime 4 PSP

Too late fuckers, your service is hated more than ever. what idiot will use it now?
- http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
  
  Quite a few apparently. Considering that it is faster than numerous other downloading services, I still use it but ONLY for things that I trade by PM on forums to trusted users.
whishi

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Horsemeat

Rapidshare were forced into the anti piracy stance because of what has happened and is still happening… they are a business after all. If they think they can can make money and drop the restrictions which were probably forced on them by and outside source then good right…

Unless they are getting ready to sell out their customers.
Who

LOL most users went to youtube, not another cyber locker. Ive talked to a lot of past MU subscribers, and they said they just mainly used there streaming service. MU was hardly used for so called pirated content. and what was on it eventually got switched to torrents instead. hell all I ever used MU for was to send files to folks that were to large to send thu Gmail. and then switched to RS. now that they are changing things, im gona move some ware else, and IF I have to ill just send a dam torrent file in the emal. LOL
- http://rationaldreaming.com/ Mike
  
  “MU was hardly used for so called pirated content”
  —
  Are you kididing? Whatever you might think about the legitimacy of downloading copyrighted material, there is no doubt that the vast majority of MU’s traffic was driven by those downloads.
  - Guest
    
    And you have seen the actual evidence with your own eyes that the vast majority of downloads was pirated or are you just listening to what the MPAA/DOJ are saying and thinking yeah it must be true. Until you have seen the evidence with your own eyes then I wouldn’t believe what others are saying. Megaupload is innocent until proved and found guilty in a court trial but so far no evidence has been shown by the MPAA/DOJ of copyright infringement and this is where the extradition hearing will show that there is no case.
    - http://rationaldreaming.com/ Mike
      
      Absolutely, Megaupload is innocent until proven guilty, but that is a completely separated issue. The charges are that they knowingly and willfully conspired to make money off the uploading of pirated content, not that Megaupload was used mostly for pirated content.
      
      But you would be a fool not to believe that Megaupload was indeed used primarily for uploading pirated content. The sheer volume of links and piracy web sites hosting those links by far outnumbered anything related to the sharing of legitimate files. That doesn’t mean MU is guilty in the eyes of the law, but let’s not be in denial about what MU was mostly used for.
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Pornostar

So far it’s quite good.Parallel downloads are also allowed :) I constantly get 600k.
ginger nut

i quite liked the slow speed, it gave me time to pick my nose and eat it. so there.
MC

Isnt this the company that went to great pains to point the fingers at all thier file hosting competition, whent he ravenous MAFIAA monster came calling?

Nothing that Rapidshit can do will ever tempt me back, the duplicitous fucking bootlickers. Mega is going to eat them alive, starting in 2013.

Rapidshit is the Myspace of the file hosting world.
Anonymous

There’s a reason RS is referred to as “RapidShit”. They’re only doing this to stop hemorrhaging users.

Nowadays people who want to share some files with friends just use Dropbox/Mediafire/Google Drive/MS Skydrive/Adrive/Box/hundreds of other sites that offer a much better service than RS.
- Anonymous
  
  Adrive and Box? Hadnt heard of those! Thanks.
Flex

so RapidShare = lies entrapment sh-ty downloading speeds and a site that wont really truly let you share in turn loosing the share = rapid p-ss
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Guest32

Good proposal, and it sounds much like FreeNet’s decentralized datastore, unless I am missing something. Using Truecrypt is commendable, but the key generation and encryption process should be automated and run locally as javascript in the user’s browser. What you suggests is already possible for those acquainted with Tor, FreeNet and darknets, but the technology should be oneclick and widely adopted. If the technology has already become popular, it’s politically difficult to ban it completely.
- https://twitter.com/OffensivAtheist Bismarket
  
  Agreed,Tor just seems like hassle but desirable nonetheless.
Nodada

So then what are your favorite file hosts? Most of those having official support threads over at Wjunction are scammers or damn expensive.
- https://twitter.com/OffensivAtheist Bismarket
  
  “ZippyShare” & “Putlocker” (“Filerio” has it’s moments) seem to be pretty good, at least for us in the UK. “Uploaded” is dishonest, there’s no way i’d ever buy premium from them.
Sergi

Yeah, they are hypocrites. Without that which he call “piracy” they won’t earn a penny. Fortunately, they are giving us much much better speed again, but we can’t trust the RS people since they have demonstrated not being reliable. What are they going to do next to abuse us, their customers?
By the way, it’s “30 kB/s”, not *“30/kbs”.
Best regards to all pirates. Sharing is caring.
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TheOiulkj

My advice to everyone is to wait until they say what these “more efficient counter measures” are before jumping on board. Who knows, they might just start suing their customer’s brains out come December
- Troyroy
  
  exactly, rapidshare say they don’t log leechers but perhaps their new polices will include spying on their customers and handing that info to lawyers
  - Guest
    
    More like we will log all your details uploads/downloads and will send all the information to the MPAA who will sue you for all the money under the sun. In exchange Rapidshre will not be sued or shutdown because we the company are the MPAA’s bitch who will bend over with providing the MPAA a regular amount of suckers to sue.
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Implied: “O shi- the new Mega is coming.”
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https://twitter.com/OffensivAtheist Bismarket

I remember when i was a lad RS was one of the best, second only to Mega (sometimes). What happened? They screwed themselves & the rest of us together. Sad!
Cindywilliams25

the throttles have come and gone for the past several months, so nothing new; yesterday it was throttled to 25; today it was ok until it went dead completely
StevO

Actually their service is not responding. I think they are down.
zhochi

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Brian M.

Anyone know when they’ll be back up?
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Anonymous

If you’re going to post pirated files on Rapidshare, at least make sure to password-protect them and don’t use a name that makes it obvious that they are pirated. Protect the links instead of posting them directly. Don’t make it easy for Rapidshare to identify pirated links because they have great speeds.
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IceBeam

Clearly they should let them download stuff as FAST AS POSSIBLE – why? Because then people will be gone really quickly again! ;)
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some guy

I’m not in to downloading copyrighted content although I do admire the skills of some people. Despite that I do have to say that a lot of students that today are really good professionals would have never been as good as they are if they didn’t train with pirate software.
That being said, I would like to say that the ww community of uploaders-downloaders and data systems providers never saw the bigger picture ( pirates never managed to see the bigger picture throughout history of man-kind anyway).
SO here’s the deal, downloaders ( the many ) pay for the accounts, the uploaders ( the very few) don’t have to pay since they get free premium accounts after a number of downloads. The HOST get paid form most of its customers and then pays a very big amount to the owners of the content downloaded.
If all parts agree we have a solution, if not, there will be “war”. May the best win.
YRY

The counter measure from RS for pirates is the limited traffic. So, download speed for free users raised to 250-300 kbps but traffic is limited to 1 GB/day. Premium users have 30 GB/day, but if they upload and share the links to the public, because traffic counter measures what they download from others as well as what others download from them, downloaders will eat up the limited 30 GB/day for a premium uploader user. Only the files shared to friends have unlimited traffic.
abe

who the fuck would pay RS? shitty program, shitty rates, annoying “wait xx seconds”, the balls i dont even

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