RapidShare Slows Download Speeds To Drive Away Pirates

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February 24, 2012
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During the last week, users who rely on RapidShare’s free service have been complaining of reduced download speeds. Several theories have been circulating, mainly focusing on the file-hoster trying to drive users to take up premium accounts. But according to RapidShare the reason is simple – to drive pirates away from their service. Fast download speeds are still available for free, but they come at a different kind of cost.

During the wake of the Megaupload raids in January, TorrentFreak continuously monitored the cyberlocker world. We watched file-hosters panic and we watched bewildered users of their services try to find alternatives.

The fallout was fascinating to watch. Some hosters eventually closed down and some changed their policies, but it soon became clear that immediately usable capacity had become much more rare, at least on terms acceptable to users.

Interestingly – and despite the glaring omission of a cash rewards program – around warez blogs and release sites we saw an increased interest in RapidShare. Site users asked again and again for uploaders to put material up on the Swiss-based file-hoster.

Then a little over a week ago reports started coming in that users of RapidShare’s free service had experienced dramatic speed drops down to around 30/kbs. Speculation was rife that the company was exploiting the Megaupload closure fallout to drive users to their premium, non-limited products. So we asked RapidShare, and this was their fascinating response.

“On January 19th Megaupload was shut down by the FBI. Shortly thereafter, several other file hosters curbed their services or entirely stopped their operations,” the company told TorrentFreak.

“RapidShare has been faced with a severe increase in free user traffic and unfortunately also in the amount of abuse of our service ever since, suggesting that quite a few copyright infringers have chosen RapidShare as their new hoster of choice for their illegal activities,” the company explained.

“We have thus decided to take a painful yet effective step: to reduce the download speed for free users. We are confident that this will make RapidShare very unpopular amongst pirates and thus drive the abusive traffic away.”

RapidShare says that there is a direct link between free users of file-hosting services and copyright infringement. Those who like to pirate prefer not to pay, the company believes, not least because they want to avoid connecting their personal payment details to a copyright-infringing cyberlocker account.

Now, there will be those who say that however RapidShare dress it up, the company will be aware that the restrictions will drive users to their premium services to get better speeds. But interestingly RapidShare is now offering ways for users to get faster download speeds without paying a dime – providing those uploading the original files they’re trying to access do some work.

“We knew that through the action taken we would even affect some RapidPro customers, especially those who offer their own files via websites or blogs and heavily depend on a possibility for free users to download their files. Therefore, we have decided to offer those customers a kind of deregulation that allows free users to download their files with the fastest possible speed again,” the company says.

What this means is that uploaders of content will have to provide RapidShare with details on the nature of their account including what type of files they’re sharing, the name of the sites and blogs where the download links are getting posted, and the uploader’s email address and telephone number.

RapidShare adds that by signing up to the scheme, uploaders give the company the right to check their files and websites for illegal activities.

In recent months RapidShare has made substantial efforts to demonstrate it is a responsible file-hoster that takes the law seriously, but this action is perhaps the strongest indication yet that the company wants to disassociate itself from infringing content and a Megaupload-style fate.

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hope u fuck off and die RS
- Anonymous
  
  So, people pirate the shit out of movies, music and games…
  but “whow, paying for a RS subscription, that’s too much!”
  - http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
    
    Yes, it is, ass-garo, considering that 99.9% of the ‘pirates’ are not making enough money to buy the actual legitimate things in question or (games excluded) have already PAID for the things in some manner.
    - Logos
      
      I would like to see data to support that claim. It sounds made up.
    - Anonymous
      
      Solution: open up a savings account, skip fast food / beer / recreational activities and place that saved money into the savings account so you can eventually purchase what you need.
      
      Brb going to grab that Benz off the show room floor and haul ass with it since I do not make enough money to buy it
    - Anonymous
      
      ffs, copying is not stealing, get that into your thick head
    - Anonymous
      
      So…you admit they aren’t making enough money to buy the things…but you think they are ENTITELD to it?
      
      Are you seriously 5 years old? Do you still stomp your feet and hold your breath in a store until mommy buys you that new toy too? It is bad enough you live in her basement.
    - Anonymous
      
      Anonymous..just because YOU say it isn’t doesn’t make it so. Stealing is obtaining something that you didn’t earn or buy. PEriod.
      
      I love you worthless children like you have repeated your own incorrect definition so often that you actually believe it.
      
      And it is sad that you know you will NEVER be of any value to society which is why you don’t worry about people stealing your work from you. No wonder you are suicidal.
    - Jorbz
      
      I like how you say games excluded when those are the second most expensive out of music, books, games, movies, and software.
    - Anonymous
      
      I made a copy with the harddrive space and bandwidth that I bought.
      
      I fail to see how that is stealing
    - Sid Vicious
      
      I robbed the liquor store with the gun and ski mask that I bought.
      
      I fail to see how that is stealing
    - http://www.facebook.com/ValhallaLegend Andrew Lee
      
      @Sid Vicious
      The difference is the guy copying shit did not take it at gunpoint lol.. Now if he went into a server bank with a 50 cal and forced them to give him a copy that would pretty much match the scenario you described.
      
      @lakawak
      Like I’ve said many times before if you buy a movie and it sucks you’re stuck with the shit. However any other product you can demand a refund and get it. I’ve also said if you loan a tool to your next door neighbor it’s technically the same thing as video piracy since you’re costing a company a potential sale.
      The fact is a huge percent of the people doing it would have probably not bought it in the first place.
      So if you believe copying data is wrong you should tell the next person that ask to borrow any item from you to fuck off.
      Because if you loaned something out you’re no better then a person copying data.
      I can guarantee you’ve loaned something to a friend,neighbor ect so stop be a gd hypocrite because you probably made a few companies lose money in doing so..
    - Greg Wilson
      
      To Andrew Lee,
      
      No, lending a tool is not the same thing. The difference is that when you lend something to someone, you give them *PERMISSION* to take said tool (permission being the key word, which basically means that hypothetically, if you can prove you were given permission to download a given software, you’d be in the clear.)
    - Guest
      
      To Greg Wilson,
      Yes, lending a tool is similar, if not the same, your failure to comprehend the analogy notwithstanding. Andrew’s point is that you cost the tool industry money when you lend a friend a tool that he would have otherwise had to buy or rent.
  - OzzieGuillen
    
    The whole point of pirating is to get stuff for FREE. Not to pay some middle man who exploit the users that made them popular in the first place.
    - Anonymous
      
      Breaking news: BANDWIDTH COSTS MONEY AND IS NOT FREE
      
      Quit crying, cry baby
    - Vamp
      
      If you can afford internet access you can afford a premium account…
    - Chuck
      
      When will people pull their head out of their ass and finally realize copying a file isn’t the same as grabbing a benz off the show room floor?
    - Bobbuttons
      
      You wouldn’t download a car!… oh wait
    - Anonymous
      
      http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/6960965/1970_Chevelle_Hot-Rod_3d_model
    - Anonymous
      
      Yup…which is why they are trying to stop it.
    - Aa
      
      this is getting back to megaupload´s model. if you can buy premium acc, you can pay same money directly to artists and everyone will be happy.
    - randy thiesen
      
      Perfect point!
    - Greg Wilson
      
      To Chuck,
      
      NEWS FLASH: Under most statutes, the meaning of stealing is simple: If you didn’t pay for it, it’s stealing – whether it’s a piece of bubble gum, a can of soda, a software, or a Mercedes. The only difference is a matter of whether you go down for petty theft (theft of property whose value is less than $500), grand theft (theft of property whose value is more than $500), burglary (theft by breaking into something), or robbery (theft involving the use of force.)
      
      Nice attempt at comparing one extreme with another though. ;)
  - http://twitter.com/Mathew30 Mathew Lisett
    
    i stopped paying for RS some years ago when i sudenly realised, why the fuck would i pay for a servuce providing me this content when its avaliable for free else where….and most of which isnt their content in the first place. just like when i used to buy dvd copies from the net, untill i realised like rs years later its free content why would i pay them for content they are proifitering from.
  - Gae
    
    Funny how when MU closed, the authorities made a big deal out of how much money they had made out of piracy.
    It seems that after all even pirates are willing to pay for content if it is made available to them in the right way.
    - Minetits
      
      They made money mostly through advertising.
      
      It only tell us that not all pirates use adblock, not that pirates paid for premium accounts…
    - Gae
      
      @Minetits:
      
      Then that simply shows that you can still make money even if you give content away for free.
      To be fair, MU did not have to stump up the money to make the content but the point is still the same.
    - Anonymous
      
      Wow…such ignorance.
  - Borderliner
    
    > So, people pirate the shit out of movies,
    > music and games… but “whow, paying
    > for a RS subscription, that’s too much!”
    Isn’t that the whole point of non-commercial pirating? “I share, I carry the expences, you download for free, you don’t pay the authors and you don’t pay me”. Sure there are non-direct expences, but a premium RS account ain’t one of them (unless you store your own private files there, or regularly download from those 4 or so people who host they non-infriging public files on RS).
- DZ_King
  
  I fucking hate warez ppl for making money of pirates, rapidshare does the same! so go p2p of fucking DIE..
- PlatinumC
  
  I’ve been wondering for years why RS is still active, and hasn’t crawled to some corner to rot off quietly.
  Now I’m quite certain this will happen sooner or later.
  Even if you are a legit customer who shares their work on their blogs for example, most people won’t start providing RS with all their information and so on, they will just move on.
  And besides, if you are a legit uploader and pay for a filehost service, maybe its time to rent a small ftp server instead, and host it directly on your website. If you are legit, you have nothing to fear right (Albeit I think it will cost a bit more per month, especially on the bandwidth side).
  Though I’m sure, that there are always better workarounds.
  - Anonymous
    
    Except it is not “a bit” more. It is quite a lot.
  - Valek879
    
    Just buy your own server…..relatively cheap, no monthly fees and you can host whatever you want….only thing you will need to do is find an ISP that has an unlimited bandwidth plan.
    - Guest
      
      Yes, because 1 Gbps unlimited plans are offered quite cheaply by all ISPs.
    - CKY
      
      STFU. Stupid fucking comment, do you realize the traffic rapid$hare deals with.
      The police would be on to you in no time.
      I gave up on R$ years ago, fed up of there shite service.
      Here’s a hint for others forget R$ and search for NewsDemon
      http://www.newsdemon.com/?ref=10178705
    - PlatinumC
      
      If all else fails, set up a small donation system lol.
      Anyway as I said, IDK the prices, so IDK how much more it could be :P. But at smaller sharing, definetly worth it.
- Anonymous
  
  Yeah! I hope RS die a bloody death for submitting to being blackmailed by government lobby groups! When an elite anti-terrorism squad was sent in after MegaUpload you think the our (the US) government was kidding around? We can only speculate what kinds of doo-doo Rapidshare has been in lately with these lobby groups.
  
  People like you need to start doing something about this other than shouting angrily on the internet at companies. Your fellow man that has actually been going off and doing things for your cause while you sit on your butt still has no backup whatsoever in the U.S. Least you could do is go do that shouting instead at your politicians for laundering taxpayer money into keeping the copyright beast going.
  - Anonymous
    
    I hate to tell you…but they never WANTED to be used by spoiled brats like you who feel entitled to everything even though you are worthless to society andtherefore don’t earn your way through life.
    - Cheaptrix420
      
      You are an absolute douchebag…you do realize that, don’t you? I guess your mommy never gave you the love you so longed for.
    - Guest
      
      @lakawak. You sir are a moron of the highest level. Please crawl back under the bridge that you came from. Troll D-bag.
  - Guest
    
    RapidShite – The friend of my enemy is my enemy.
- Noahnathan
  
  ur right rs damm sukzz i was givin a it a try cuz it came back well but now its sukzzz fuck rs and there members hope this site get shut down soon. once again fuck rs.
- Anonymous
  
  I know! How DARE they try to protect themselves from people who still act like spoiled 5 year olds who feel ENTITLED to everything they want even ythough you and your monkey job are worthless to society and as such you can’t afford anything
  - Mike22222
    
    yea lets keep saying the same thing over and over again. we get it, you had a bad child hood and your not confident in your current employment and feel inadequate as a human being so you come onto a fucking torrent news site to project your internal demons onto others to feel better. now the shut the fuck up and leave if you have nothing useful to say. when did this site become full of pro-copyright ppl jesus christ, i feel like im listening to rush limbaugh
  - Guest
    
    @lakawak. Repeating the same retarded argument over and over does not help you to sound like any less of a moron. Deeeeerp de derp derp.
- Anonymous
  
  I hate people who share warez simply to make money. Damn asses. Its because of them that we are in such a horrid situation.
- Tren
  
  …and they’re going to drive away users.
Anon

they want to sell more premium accounts. they don’t give a shit about piracy.
- Anonymous
  
  not just selling premium – they want to sell more premium accounts *and* make the site look more valuable (see: upload stuff and now your speed is faster) – this creates the effect of “help make rapidshare less crap” (even though it is crap).
- Guest
  
  Let’s take a look at RapiShare contradiction:
  
  a) Slow down download speeds to stop “piracy”;
  b) Call every free user a “pirate”;
  c) If you pay you are not a “pirate”;
  d) “Pirates” buy premium accounts;
  e) Premium “pirates” remove 30kb/s download speed limit.
  f) ?
  g) Profit!
  
  Conclusion: RapidShare only wants “pirates” to give them money.
  - http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
    
    Which is going to get them in trouble with the MPAA and RIAA very very soon, I bet.
  - Anonymous
    
    Like they said, you fucking idiot..Pirates are NOT going to get a premium account becuase you have to use a credit card or some other sort of identifying information.
    
    Nice try though. You DID make yourself look stupid, but at least you tried.
    - http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
      
      Nice try, idiot, but as long as Rapidshare is not monitoring what people download, pirates WILL buy a premium account!
    - Jake Sylvestre
      
      @christopher no they won’t because they can be tracked down easily
    - Krozar
      
      Has noone ever heard of putting files in a password-encrypted RAR? Do people upload files to cyberlockers in their obvious and original format?
    - AngelWithoutWings
      
      Fake credit cards have never been a problem before for anything in the world why should that be a problem now? hackers and pirates know what they are doing. They have a business. I am sure they know how to get around all of that. Not at all saying that I agree with stealing. I have to admit, I do love movies and can afford to pay for an account if I truly wanted to, but there are so many Free downloads that that ONLY reason I pay for an account is because It Is The Right Thong To Do……Period.
    - AngelWithoutWings
      
      Fake credit cards have never been a problem before for anything in the world why should that be a problem now? hackers and pirates know what they are doing. They have a business. I am sure they know how to get around all of that. Not at all saying that I agree with stealing. I have to admit, I do love movies and can afford to pay for an account if I truly wanted to, but there are so many Free downloads that that ONLY reason I pay for an account is because It Is The Right Thing To Do……Period.
    - guh
      
      I can still make a subscrition without using credit card. Just transfer money via the bank to their corespondent niche account
    - Tragic
      
      dumbass, you can easily buy a moneypak and setup a new paypal and buy premium
- Anon
  
  In a nutshell yep that is the game but you miss they will be selling this idea to the copyright holders in an attempt to prolong their business model.
  - Rohe
    
    The business model prolongs because of existing worldwide demand.
    Getting paid for the demand is just a nuance. As long people are siphoning off US “warez”, they have the political power to act as they wish.
- Fgf
  
  MEGASHARES have been doing same thing since megaupload closed, now there is no fast free host, so everyone gathering all there money before another shutdown , megshares gives a no slot free error ever since, every normal net downloader knows the truth
  REMEMBER WHEN SHARING USED TO BE ABOUT SHARING
  - TelezarZ
    
    Sharing will still be about sharing, but only if the Warez community accept to have non earning links on their website.
    Few days ago, Warez-bb, one of the largest Warez board, announce that they’ll give priority to the non earing links, that a good start, the others should do the same.
  - Anonymous
    
    The problem is…you aren’t allowed to share things that you don’t own the rights to.
    - http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
      
      Wrong again, lakawak…… or should I call you “lackwitted”.
    - Enjoy
      
      I make my own rules.
- TelezarZ
  
  Yes! They care about money ONLY. Even more than Megaupload on that one.
Fuck

FUCK RS!
Plastic

Lol “We are confident that this will make RapidShare very unpopular amongst pirates” no shit. if you turn yourself into a worthless 30kb/s host file host then you’re going to be very unpopular amongst everyone.

Just shut down already.
- http://twitter.com/icanhazsake Ninja
  
  Reminds me about MAFIAA and the DRM. Every1 suffers with it except.. the pirates. Amusing.
  
  I’m sure they’ll be losing premium customers as they lose uploaders to this idiocy so yeah, shot their feet.
- Anonymous
  
  It is as if you just can’t read. Which is no wonder why you have no job.
  
  The people using it legitimately will be FAR more likely to go through the steps to get the free fast speeds because they are not breaking the law and therefore won’t care about verifying their name.
  - Holyjeeziwantedtolickem
    
    you are using this article as if it is 100% fact. it is their OPINION that pirates wont pay for premium accounts. First of all, typing in credit card info is the most simplistic thing to even worry about. They can track you digitally very easily without you typing in anything. Ppl will buy accounts if they are desperate for a file, i have before. I was trying to get a program that I couldn’t find anywhere and all the links were down besides RS so i bought a trial account.
    
    Second of all, you contradicted yourself. “get the free fast speeds” the fast speeds arent free thats the point. And your dead wrong, so its only “pirates” who dont like paying? I think its the opposite…a pirate who wants a large game for far less than $60 and is desperate would just buy the account. The occasional user who downloads 5mb legal files that can be found at download.com isn’t going to shell out 15 bucks a month just to download the occasional files. Illegal files are easy enough to find, legal stuff is literally everywhere. If you need to pay RS to find a working link to download the ubuntu iso, for instance, then you’re retarded.
    
    Stop using the same insult, I read a comment up above that hit it on the head. “you have no job”, maybe if you say it enough times, you’ll finally be accepting of your own menial job that you clearly have major insecurities about. You are the most ignorant person on this forum. To assume anyone who likes to download the occasional file for free is a jobless loser who lives in their mothers basement. Why are you so embittered towards this sites community? You are either projecting your own insecurities onto others and lack the social skills to actually be able to do it to live people in person you hide behind the anonymity of a computer, or you were raped by “pirates” as a child. I think its a little of both. You are using the computer to hide your identity, just like a pirate. Now get out from behind the computer and confront your problems! They aren’t going to go away just by putting others down! There are professionals who can help you with your unresolved daddy and pirate-rape issues! Its your future, you CAN take control. Its not too late to further your education and get a better job that you arent humiliated by! Step out into the realm of society and meet actual people IN PERSON! I BELIEVE IN YOU!
    - Krchmar
      
      Ye, and what about free users? I don’t care what pirates do, I am a free “USER” not a pirate, so the damage is on me, not pirates.
  - Borderliner
    
    Have to agree with Holyjeeziwantedtolickem.
    If you are *publicly* sharing legimate stuff then you, most likely, won’t be using RS in the first place. For private stuff, sure, but for public materials… If you offer programs, then you offer ‘em through some software repository, if you offer pictures then you offer ‘em through some picture hoster, if you offer media then you’ll embed in into your blog from YouTube or the like. What you won’t do is upload it to RS and give ‘em your phone number.
http://novenator.tumblr.com/ novenator

argh!
- Anonymous
  
  Awesome! The bitter old familyless man chimes in!
http://flavors.me/sabret00the sabret00the

I thought most pirates were uploading to uploaded and turbobit?
- Mybutthole
  
  never heard of turbobit, but uploaded.to isn’t available in the US.
  - Guest
    
    VPN
    - http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
      
      VPN is worthless, there are so many ways to penetrate that (especially if your VPN keeps records) that you might as well forget about it.
    - Kr0nZ
      
      So don’t get a VPN that keeps records, and even if they do it would be extremely difficult to track one specific person down because vpns are shared with one ip for multiple people
    - None
      
      @Christopher Kidwell: If you use a no-logging VPN, and you don’t use ipv6 or have a DNS leak, what other ways can they get to you?
    - http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
      
      None, I simply DO NOT BELIEVE, after HideMyAss was caught logging, that these VPN’s don’t log! I just don’t!
    - None
      
      @Christopher Kidwell: No doubt many who say they don’t are lying. Of course “Our VPN is located in X where we don’t have to worry much about the authorities” can mean “we don’t have to log” or “thanks for the money, now good luck catching us”.
  - Anonymous
    
    vote in less corrupt politicians and it will be available again
  - DRuNKeN MaSTeR
    
    Because the US is the b*tthole of the world. Uploaded.to made the right choice by censoring them, as they censor everyone else.
    - Guest
      
      Uploaded.to is the shittiest cyberlocker in the world. 2 hour wait time between each download anyone? Screw them.
  - kingofbeers
    
    “uploaded.to isn’t available in the US. ”
    
    There are some hentai and manga sites which now instruct US downloaders how to get their stuff a from uploaded.to as it also pays the fansubbers for their efforts in subbing the Japanese manga and videos.
    
    Great idea. I don;t mind downloading from filelockers as I want to reward the fansubbers for their efforts..
- Rekrul
  
  Turbobit is pathetic. Their download speeds are worse than Rapidshit’s.
  - Turbobit
    
    Cyberlockers have hundreds of servers spread worldwide. If you look for different links for the same file you’re looking for, you’ll eventually end up downloading from one of their servers where you’ll get better speeds.
    
    ie.
    Server 86 ~ 200kb/s
    Server 54 ~ 1800kb/s
  - http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
    
    Agreed about Turbobit. Even when I COULD download stuff from them, the speeds were lackluster…… 14kbps to 30kbps max, even not using TOR.
Bruce

The entrepreneurial net sees throttling as damage and routes around it with new startups.
- Cornholed
  
  Or just more closings.
  
  Whoops. Reality sux, doesn’t it?
guest

that’s a smart move… no one wants to abuse it’s services
Jack

Hollywood orders the arrest one fat guy and 89.3% of file sharing services immediately surrender (AKA take their money and hide)? The rest cripple/shit themselves (or blew to begin with) out of fear! Embarrassing. Shameful. Disgusting.

Time for some heroes to come along with a magnificent service… and take ALL the money/pride.

Sharing is caring, goddammit.
- MadAsASnake
  
  Well, next step from the tactics used to take down Mega is extrordinary rendition, and orange suits at guantanomo bay. You can see why people don’t want any part of that…
- Crappypants
  
  Why don’t you be the hero then.
- Logos
  
  Well, it seems that the filesharing services don’t work by the motto of “sharing is caring”. It seems that there is a large gap between what you want their motivations to be, and what they actually are. You find it disgusting because you think that they should be willing to fight for you, when in reality they simply don’t care about you or your motivations.
  
  Knowing that, it occurs to me that if you’re not willing to accept that other people don’t share your motivations, you should either start a filesharing site yourself, or acknowledge that the people who have started most of them are simply in it for the money, and they will leave as soon as that is threatened (excepting TPB and company, of course).
- Gae
  
  It is disgusting really, they (USA and MAFIAA) are just using fear to make what are potentially legitimate businesses close down or scale back.
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suomynonA

As Daniel Raimer, a spokesperson for RapidShare said after the illegal closure of Megaupload : “We’re not concerned or scared about the raid” . Damn Rapidshare, you are scared like shit from that day. 95% of your content is “illegal”.

Long live TPB, the galaxy’s most resilient cyberlocker
- Danny
  
  TPB is no way near comparable to a shitty cyberlocker….
  - OutrageMcMurderspree
    
    Bayfiles is comparable, but it is much better.
  - Anonymous
    
    Good looking getting older content (be it movies or music) from a bittorrent site!
  - Guest
    
    Cyberlockers are way better than shitty TPB. Most of time when I try to download a torrent from TPB, which is more than 2 years old, I am forced to cancel download due to lack of seeds or too many leechers resulting in speeds less than 20kb/s. I would rather pay a few bucks to cyberlockers and get my downloads reliably at fast speeds.
    - Danny
      
      Your inability to use bit torrent succesfully does not mean that it sucks. You just have to know how to search public trackers to get what you want. Torrents are so much easier, faster, and more efficient than cyberlockers.
    - http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
      
      Danny, it’s not that he is ‘unable to use bittorrent successfully’, it’s that what he says is true: for ANY file over 1 year old, it’s hell to find any seeds for the fucking thing!
      
      I know that from experience.
    - Danny
      
      That’s funny because just yesterday I downloaded a film using a TPB torrent which was 4 years old. It still had 400 seeds and hardly any leachers, got it in about 10 minutes.
    - don king
      
      But Danny, that only works for material which is very popular in the first place, eg; blockbuster movies, popular TV shows, top 40 records etc. Using a cyberlocker I could download records that have been out of print for 30 years and are unavailable to buy anywhere or movies that never even made it to DVD. But because these types of files are only of interest to a relatively small group of people they’d be almost impossible to obtain via torrent sites after a year or so.
      
      So you end up with only popular files having any longevity on torrent sites further marginalising anyone with tastes that extend beyond the mainstream…
    - Greg Wilson
      
      Eh? I ALWAYS get at LEAST 1.4MB/sec from TPB. Either find yourself a better torrent, or a better ISP. :P
http://torrentfreak.com/ Rob8urcakes

The @RapidShare cyberlocker is clearly running scared from the MAFIAA.org + their paid-for political puppets in the USA. And clearly cashing in on the confusing débacle over filesharing versus CopyWrong law meanwhile.

But the intriguing aspect of all this is the way RS has rolled over like a scared puppy dog and is now collecting and KEEPING data logs on its own paying customers!!!

That PERSONAL & PRIVATE information will no longer be CONFIDENTIAL or SAFE from the prying eyes of whoever RS will openly share or sell your data to. And whilst we still have stupid, anti-people, anti-filesharing laws that try to lock-down the Imaginary Property of our culture, talent and knowledge the Courts and law-enforcement agencies will gladly scoop up your info and use it to prosecute you if they think any of these daft laws are breached.

Rapidshare, like the MAFIAA, has now signed its own Death Warrant = Epic FAIL
- Fuck RapidShit
  
  Exactly. It’s also interesting how RapidShit has selective amnesia. What, they “forgot” that they built a business almost entirely around “piracy?” Now they want to act like a bunch of sanctimonious fucktards: “We are confident that this will make RapidShare very unpopular amongst pirates and thus drive the abusive traffic away.” Right RapidShit, now that your pockets have been lined and you’ve made millions off “pirates,” make sure to “drive the abusive traffic away.” You MAFIAA ass kissing hypocrites – I hope that bed is big enough for all of you…
Arthurtwoshedsjackson

Of course this only took them about a month and a half to implement – and ‘during’ this month and half Rapidshare raked in a small fortune… Why, can anyone tell me, didn’t they do this from the start? They know what traffic they were getting before MU (and the rest) either went down/or started to panic…. Yet it still took them over a month to implement this otherwise rather obvious change.

Anyway, let’s all watch as Rapidshares stocks plummet and in a year or two from now disappears off the face of the planet.

Meanwhile, many (many) other sites will come along and fill their shoes… As we’ve all been seeing.

You can’t stop someone setting up a cyberlocker – and you can’t police all the files that get uploaded to it. I’m still struggling to see who exactly is profiting from any of this, except for the lawyers, of course. The warez scene hasn’t even been remotely dented from any of the activities that have gone on since MU went down… It is just as easy to find warez as it ever was – In fact, with all this attention it’s a safe guess that the warez scene has only grown in size.

I wish I was a lawyer! I could probably retire in a couple of years…
- Bloaxor
  
  “I wish I was a lawyer! I could probably retire in a couple of years…”
  I wouldn’t wish such a shameful fate on myself, to be honest.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000617943487 Máté Bikfalvi

On a somewhat related note, Bibliotik shut down. As for RS slowing download speeds…well let’s just say, if you really want that file you will wait for it to finish anyway.

Also RS sucks, Mediafire is way better
- MadMan
  
  I hope Bibliotik will migrate to a safer place. It’s such a shame these sites are being forced to shut down. There’s a tremendous amount of work involved that’s being wiped out.
  
  Am I the only one thinking that this frantic tracker hunt down is caused by the two stupid bills (SOPA & PIPA) not seeing the light of day ? Well that makes it obvious that the two bills were not intended to stop the piracy in the first place.
- Bloaxor
  
  Mediafire is totally boss, yeah.
Bert

Why would anyone use cyberlockers for pirating content anyway? The services absolutely suck and with Usenet and torrents you need not look anywhere else. Wake up people!
- http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
  
  You wake up, nincompoop supreme! The fact is that cyberlocker > torrents and Usenet until V E R Y recently.
  
  In fact, I am STILL better able to get non-porn things from cyberlockers than from torrents and Usenet? Impossible to use the latter since my ISP dropped their Usenet access.
  - Rangloo Zangloo
    
    rule #1 & #2 idiot!
- Rekrul
  
  I usually agree about Usenet, but lately, I’ve been noticing a lot of stuff that never gets posted. Like the most recent TS copy of Ghost Rider 2.
  - Rangloo Zangloo
    
    Do you know what “fucking idiot” means? stop talking nonsense an observe rule 1 & 2
    - Anonymous
      
      I get the impression that some folks never saw “Fight Club.”
- Rangloo Zangloo
  
  remember rule #1 & #2
  - Resin
    
    Dude, lighten up. Everyone already knows about Usenet, cyberlockers and torrents. This isn’t a big secret.
Bert

And by the way, where RS stops its services or restricts it another will come in and replace it. Can’t stop the internet. Period.
- Rohe
  
  I don’t see that. Everybody in the cyberlocker world is just happy that the automated systems of the commercial underground didn’t found them yet.
  
  RS got shiteload of delete requests every hour and after a while they seemed only to respond to 1000s delete requests each day. If a large number of your uploads start to become a “upload->delete” cycle, you start wondering when 72 guys drop off two helicopters on your land.
  
  I wouldn’t want that sort of business and many others don’t seem to be eager to follow into that area. Cyberlockers aren’t the solution to the problem. They just fake remedy it, like a small band-aid over a shot wound,
Guest

Oh no, RS reduced their speeds; we have finally reached the end of the internet…
Flex

rapidshare more like slow to no share
why ask why!

good job rs you just making your self even crapper you just want more money like other the other ones. PS I’m going to download more from you know bitchesssssss.
- Ynciipfw
  
  Yeah, keep your money, and have someone teach you english instead,
  that way, when you swear, people might take you seriously.
  LMAO
Guest

Driving users away.
Excellent business plan!
RunnerX

whitout so called “pirates” rapid share will still be a small time site.
- CrawleyH
  
  …which is probably what they want at this moment in time.
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Crappypants

Blame it all on icefilms
http://www.facebook.com/ValhallaLegend Andrew Lee

Premium link generators have always been a must for RS to get decent download speeds. This might make PLG sites become more popular but that’s anyone’s guess. So many new sharing sites are showing up it’s crazy right now. A few big sharing sites got took at out the game and now because of that at least a 100 fold has shown up. Great job they did on killing file sharing lol… Seriously they need to get it through their thick skulls as long as there is internet if a person wants something bad enough they will find it. Same thing goes with drugs if you’re itching for that fix you’re going to find it sooner or later…
ndmushroom

To recapitulate:
a. If you use a premium service, nothing changes (mind you, many pirates use premium services, although they usually do that on other cyberlocker services)
b. If you’re a free user sharing “legal” content, you have to drop in some extra details
c. If you’re a free user downloading “illegal” content, your downloads will take a little longer.

Of these three, b. is the only one I mind (that depends on how RS uses this information: How does it control the validity of the info you posted? What does it do with it? Is it constantly spying on your websites after that? Does it remove all links found on non-declared sites? etc.)
Overall, I think it’s a small price to pay for RS in order to get the MAFIAA off their backs. And let’s face it, RS hasn’t been the cyberlocker of choice for “illegal” content for many years now, so I doubt they’ll see much of a backlash following this.
- http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
  
  A ‘bit’ longer? Compare 1Mbps speeds to 30kbps…. then tell me it’s a ‘little longer’…. fucking hardly, that’s the difference between a few minutes and HOURS!
  - Anonymous
    
    Even more annoying on my system (Kubuntu) firefox claims to be downloading @ 200 – 500 Kbps but i only get a “few” packets every minute. Other sites may be slow too but at least I get a steady stream of data and can see how long the download will take.
    
    700MB = approx 8 Hours
    
    before the slow down it would have been done in less than 10 minutes
    
    I truly hope RS links disappear again……they don’t deserve the traffic.
    
    “a little longer” hahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahaha
    - Glib
      
      Not everyone downloads at 1Mbit … most of my friends that live in the sticks are happy to see 120kbps; not a huge deal to them, and I am pretty sure there are a lot of people on the same page as they are.
      
      No matter, though. The RIAA and MPAA et. al are mostly pissed about 0 day stuff; stuff they are actively selling a ton of right now … and that stuff cna be scooped from absolutely everywhere quite easily saturating even the most monstrous bandwidth for free (torrents, other p2p) or extremely cheaply (Usenet). For a very short while, I had Shaw cable’s 250Mbit service and, from free torrents, I was pulling enough data in that my green TB drive had trouble keeping up … for free.
  - ndmushroom
    
    I compare it to not being able to download it at all, and it does seem to be “a little longer”. Users chewing their nails as Justin Bieber’s new single slowly and painfully downloads can use torrents, or other cyberlockers, or p2p networks, or Usenet, or… In fact, I’m pretty sure people who want to have the latest 0day release as soon as it’s out aren’t using RS anyway. So, for those who are, and who probably turn to RS because no faster alternative was available for that particular file, the question is “would you rather wait 8 hours to download the movie you can’t seem to find anywhere else, or would you prefer not to be able to download it at all”?
    What’s your answer to this one? :-)
- http://twitter.com/icanhazsake Ninja
  
  a. yes, it changes, uploaders move away and you pay premium and won’t have what to download. And I’m talking about legit content (that’s amusingly the only thing I ever downloaded from RS, legit content and now the ppl that used to publish using RS dumped it).
  b. other cyberlockers and torrent sites don’t need that. So I move to them.
  c. actually, I won’t even notice since I’ll be downloading elsewhere as a free user.
  
  It’s not a small price, it’s free, I never paid for RS anyway. The price paid, if any, is the effort to move the content to other cyberlockers.. not really an effort though ;)
  
  Actually I think it’ll backlash because it penalizes all the users with added bureaucracy and less aggregated value. So it’s yet another huge fail for RS;
  - ndmushroom
    
    Why is it that legit content uploaders will move away from rapidshare? If you were a legit uploader, why would you prefer to upload your content to a website that might be taken down in its entirety (MU), or disable file-sharing altogether (both FS), or become unavailable to certain countries around the globe (UL) instead of RS?
    RS is trying to go legit (in the eyes of the MAFIAA, I’m not saying it wasn’t legit before). If it takes certain measures to protect legitimate filesharers without saying a huge f*ck you to the rest (again, if you consider this to be “a huge f*ck you” how would you describe what, e.g., Filesonic did?), I’m OK with that (privacy concerns withstanding). Besides, as I said before and many have said before me, it’s not as if RS was the locker of choice for “illegitimate” filesharers.
- Guest
  
  “…take a little longer.”
  
  You mean 50 hours to download a 5gb 720p movie at 30kb/s? Lol.
  - ndmushroom
    
    Actually if Kbps actually refers to Kilobits per second, as opposed to KiloBytes per second it’s 400 hours. :-)
    See my reply to Christopher for the “take a little longer” debate.
Anonymous

Man thatsreally messed up dude, what were they thinking? I mean like seriously dude. WOw. Going-Anon.tk
system32

It’s not exactly the dumbest of moves to make, is it, given that if they were to ignore what just happened to Mega then there’s a fair chance they’d be next. Of course they want to paint themselves in a good light at this stage.
John

aww good… i was wondering why my downloads from there were so effing slow. i don’t care. i let it download for a day still. jokes on them :)
- Sdfsdgd
  
  downloading huge file, after 20 hours, 99%, connection lost, try again.
Kr0nZ

Umm years ago before RS turned to shit I used to pay for a premium account to download my pirate content, their free service has always been crap.

So what they say about pirates not wanting to pay for anything is bullshit. Piracy isnt about free stuff it IS A SERVICE ISSUE

This scheme is not about piracy but trying to grab those premium accounts from MU
- http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
  
  Add into that most people have already paid for the TV shows, movies and music they pirate through cable TV and satellite TV subscriptions and you see another point there.
  
  These companies are going to stop to STOP with the “I want paid multiple times!” faggotry. It’s past old.now and no one with a brain/a limited income is going to do that.
- jöö
  
  Actually it’s not bs. The most of people who download/upload warez are not interested to pay for it, but I think it’s more priviledge than fear or giving personal details. I have personal principle that Im not going to pay for warez. Without all those money hungry idiots in cyberlocking sites I think we still could have things as they used to be. But the truth is, if sites like rapidshare would have 0% chance to get warez, they wouldnt have customers. Warezing is what keeps these sites alive, no matter how bad some morons trying to convince “yea yea but what about family photos” (well, fuck your family photos!).
  
  RS used to be bad with 1 hour per file waiting time around year ago, but once they changed free users to no limit/no waiting time it was great. It was actually that great I stopped torrenting (read= violating my local laws, as they dont prohibit downloading). I wish they wouldnt cut speed, but I it was just matter of time, why wouldnt they? I dont think anyone calling them “shit” would work free neither, would you?
  
  Thanks and sorry.
  - Rohe
    
    90% of the grow of the private Internet is because of porn, Youtube (the biggest warez box ever) and warez. Some managed to move it away to legal offerings like Netflix, which sometimes takes 50% of the whole US Internet traffic.
    
    All that young boys who bought 250DVD packages once a month in the mid-00 had surely a data center in their houses to backup. The external hard disk industry even didn’t claim anymore its for backups. The ISPs who sell you expensive lines didn’t want to know what you are doing with it. The iPhone was the slickest mp3 player ever, but the numbers between iTunes users and sales doesn’t add up at all. This tech companies all build their fortune around the fact that people get stuff off the internet.
    
    After 10 years “the cartels” start to be really p-off about that. But what they do against it? Netflix, Apple, Amazon – all non cartel companies. Thats clear stupidity.
    - None
      
      “Youtube (the biggest warez box ever)”
      
      I never did understand this. YouTube does it and they get bought by the Google, get filthy rich, and get put on the cover of Time. Kim Dotcom does it and he gets a dawn visit from anti-terrorist storm troopers. (I guess I can rest easy since there are obviously no more actual terrorists for the Thugtocracy to worry about.)
    - Guest
      
      @None
      
      You truly don’t get it. Google has been running Youtube on a loss for many years and we are talking millions of dollars worth of loss here. Its no secret, google it up. Its only recently that they have been able to cut down on some of the loss with advertising money and commissions from the labels. But despite this, they are still running Youtube on a loss nonetheless due to massive bandwidth costs. So who exactly is getting rich again?
    - None
      
      @Guest: Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion. They might be running it at a loss, but the guys who set up “the biggest warez box ever” laughed all the way to the bank.
  - Rohe
    
    @None Youtube has the *most* advanced filtering system at work which exists today. None of the Sharehosters have. And since Youtube is now the “Digital Google” in a sense of power, nobody really wants to shut it down. Many artists make quite fine money by the links to iTunes and Amazon below their music videos. Its assumed, that Lady Gaga gets 10mil a year only by google.
    
    Kim DotClosed never ever shared a dime with the artists. If he would have bought less cars and give away 80% of his riches to those, he still would be the best shooter player in the world. But he didn’t. And that’s one of the many differences.
    - None
      
      Yeah, I was thinking of when they started out (they were first sued for copyright infringement in 2006 I believe). As you say they’re now considered TBTF.
      
      And re: Kim, I agree that having cars with license plates like “GUILTY”, “POLICE”, “MAFIA” etc aren’t the best way of keeping a low profile. The State is like most other criminals – it instinctively goes after things that look flashy and require as little work as possible.
    - Rohe
      
      @None My feeling is, that the whole sh!t with the downfall of MU started, when they allowed to put 0-day cinema R5 online and didn’t delete it. I think then they cut directly in the first revenue (which is, for movies, the good old cinema) and that broke their neck. I have the feeling that lots of shit started when people couldn’t wait for the DVD or the CD to come to the market. They really had to have it five days before “mysteriously leaked”:
      
      I think that made lots of people unnecessary angry. Fun fact: in Russia, there is a deal with most underground groups, that they limit the DVD copies of Russian films (not foreign) to the second week after cinema start. It seems to work there, to protect the local film industry quite well.
Rekrul

The entertainment industry is celebrating, because downloading from cyberlocker sites royally sucks for free users right now. They’re all slower than snot with huge restrictions on how often you can download files. Frankly, it’s barely worth even looking at them if you don’t have a premium account.
Flyer

Ololo, they’re trying to drive away pirates , but do they really don’t understand it will drive away more users than just pirates? I doubt any person that have brains will go through hassle of explaining their activities and give information to crappy file hoster.
Rs hve just proven again to have idiotic hq. They just did a favor for their competitors
- FlyerReplyer
  
  Yeah, but what choice did they have really if they want to keep the business? They’re bending over backwards to give the impression they’re a legit operation, scared that if they don’t they’ll get brought down.
  - Gggg08
    
    Great way of staying in business while driving away most of users.
    Tell me at least one reason why ppl should keep using rapidshit and not go to better alternatives
Somebody

“Swiss-based” – Try “Swiss” or “Switzerland based”
- SwissCheeseBased
  
  Yeah, like it fucking matters. Way to ignore the issue entirely.
Tony

Who cares about Rapidshare, Megaupload, or any cyberlocker, seedbox, etc.?

Just download/upload from your home computer and learn ways to make yourself more anonymous.

These services are not vital to our sharing culture.

Rapidshare and all similar services can go straight into the toilet for all I care.
Kenny_Rogers

Rapid-Only-For-Legal-Users.com will be their new url
- Dolly_Parton ( . ) ( . )
  
  Good, they would be dead in 2 seconds… <3
Ian

Rapidshare stands for all that is good and honorable by targeting those dirty filesharers…while delivering limitless pornography and goodness knows what else to the multitudes.

Way to stand up for all that is right in the world.

I’m being sarcastic in case you haven’t caught on, Vapidshare.
Derp

Glad i use Real-Debrid to download via RapidShit > buying RapidShit premium
Derp

Glad i use Real-Debrid to download via RapidShit > buying RapidShit premium
Sharer Forever

Rapidshare doesn’t like us?

Boo hoo.

This information has been relegated to the “who cares” portion of my brain.
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Anon

How is this any different than the speeds before?
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Bond, James Bond

“Those who like to pirate prefer not to pay…” Exactly!

Real pirates don’t pay.
Anonymous

I don’t see this changes much when RapidShare has never been the pirates top choice for years.
Well nothing here beyond RS running sacred and I suspect to cut their bandwidth bill.

Pirates do certainly pay for services like to sign up for 1 month to catch up on all the TV series they missed.

I doubt their lawyer would see this as a clever move. Since it is hard to spot infringement then so will mistakes be made. This means RS would directly approve and be a partner to infringement and that means liable.
Rscrap

This really sucks for the people which upload legal stuff and they lose visitors on their site just because the download speed is so slow that they don’t want to download anymore. Fuck You RapidShare!
Zac Effron

Why would anyone use them to store personal files given that offshore companies like Mega can be taken down?

For personal storage nothing is better than Mediafire
foff

Oh fuck it all! I resisted for awhile but for years I have bought premium memberships because trying to dl large files for free may result in a waste of time because they may get deleted before you finish. I have never bought any long term memberships but have always bought short term ones because I never trusted the viability of a company. I never joined an affiliate program because I do believe in making money for sharing. Sharing has always had an expense at the least we pay for a faster connection then we need to just surf the net. What I think is funny is how rapidshare is trying to do contortions to claim they are clean.

If they really wanted to be above board they would give all their users 30 days to download all their stuff then completely wipe all their servers. Then see how many customers come back. Know why they don’t have the balls to do this? It would kill them for good. It would be like starting from zero. They fucking fucking know most of the stuff on their servers is copyrighted yet act like they are trying to do something. Hey f fuck you bi why don’t you get the balls to shut them down?
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R3xtwi7nner

Instead of complaining why not find real solutions, which is already in place btw…

Using sites like filenium is a great alternative, since they work as a proxy to premium downloads from a lot of dd servers.

Just like ‘sharebee’ but in the download
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Abbernomad

Ahhh, the day has come! Rapidshit is no more. To reduce speeds on free downloads is dumb. I run a downloader program that automates the process, and my computer doesn’t care how long it takes. Now, it just 404′s, which is even dumber, cause now no one will use it at all. Nice business plan, Slick Willie!
- Special Guest
  
  Yeah, thought it was just me with the 404s, Now I find some content available for RS links like comic books and the odd game but tv/movie content has just about evaporated which I was downloading but never finished. Well RS, thanks for everything you’ve allowed me to have in the past. For the future – piss off!
Zac Effron

If you are thinking about buying a Rapid premium don’t do it.

Buying premiums will only prove that Rapid’s bully tactics work.

Alternatives: torrents w/ seedbox and leechbox (real-debrid.fr or rpnet.biz to name a few)
- D1
  
  what is leechbox ???
  
  i never heard of it
http://twitter.com/p2jack Jack

Rapidshare: damn it people are pirating using our site, crap must stop free-loading pirates… lets force them to buy premium that’ll teach them and fill our wallets
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harry krishna

the speed of porn movies on movie2k is now abysmal.
- Abbernomad
  
  I dunno, a slow fuck in the afternoon ain’t so bad.
Welovefree

cyberlock is an unsecure spot for sharing files … so i don’t give a shit about them i use bittorrent …. that all
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your name

“We are confident that this will make RapidShare very unpopular amongst everyone and thus drive all the traffic away.”

Fixed.
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Guest

I’m not sure I quite follow their logic; pirates aren’t the only ones who appreciate fast download speeds (I feel silly for even needing to point this out…). All this stunt will do is:

1) Scare away customers.
2) Do nothing to effect the usage of Rapidshare by determined pirates (most of them have enough time on their hands; decreasing download speeds by a little will do literally nothing to deter them).

Retarded move, Rapidshare.
- Detard
  
  No, what’s retarded is people thinking they can carry on as normal and not expect trouble down the line.
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Guest

Will it be renamed to SlowShare now?
- darkrats
  
  I still get really good speeds from RS, even as a free user. I think they’ve throttled speed on popular files (most files are clearly named). I usually search for rare material via filecrop and other search engines, and my speeds are consistently high. Higher still in the middle of the night. And, who would upload a recent movie and leave the name of the movie visible?
  - Guest
    
    No you don’t get good speed as free user from RS. You see good speeds displayed by your browser but what you don’t see is how every few seconds data packets stop coming and that is done to make your average speed 30kb/s.
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Al Capone

They should call it what it is: WeMadeMillionsFromPiracy.com
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Anonymous

This is why lack of competition is so bad for the marketplace. Remember the days of Rapidshare only allowing very limited free downloads… something like 1 file part every 30 min. or hour? Then the competition came and RS had to play. Now we’re back to their same old games. The market will move past this MU debacle and business will be back as usual and RS will have to relent once again.
Truth

I like how everyone dismisses the fact, the RIAA/MPAA are just like the pirates. Only they’re backed by Corporate America which makes it legal…? They didn’t create any of the media they “own” and only look at the profits they can attach to any success they “own”. How is this any different than these sites like MegaUpload, Rapidshare, etc…? It’s not. If people want copyright infringement to end, they need to let the artist/movie maker be allowed to set their own pricing without jumping through hoops bc someone at the top decided they need to make their cut before it goes public. Support bands like Nine Inch Nails who releases directly to the public FREE with the option to own an actual copy for only a few dollars.

Hell maybe if half the shit being sold was worth it, people would buy it, but we all remember the 90′s CD boom, and how every CD was $19.99 and had 2 maybe 3 songs worth it. So much $$$ money was stolen from the general consumer and now they’re pissed people are finding ways to not pay these ridiculous prices for something they might not even want to keep.

Plus MOST pirates who are die-hard music/movie collectors will purchase the media they want to own. Sorry a handful of shit isn’t worth paying for.
- Anon
  
  Idiot. MPAA makes the massive investments which make creation of movies worth $200mil possible in the first place. Ask cyberlockers to make those investments and they can have the legal license to distribute movies too.
  - Krozar
    
    MPAA doesn’t do that. The movie studios do that. The MPAA is merely a middleman.
    - Krozar
      
      Actually to be more specific, the viewing public is who generates the millions it cost to make these movies.
  - Anon
    
    Actually. investors do that. When the movie fails, they get tax breaks, when it earns, they get a return. Got a couple checks myself even though I was expecting a tax break.
    - Truth
      
      The issue is, the MPAA/RIAA picks and chooses who they feel deserves $$. It’s not like the MPAA/RIAA is looking to defend independent artists or anyone who is trying to get into the same business model. They protect Corporations and that’s it, all while dipping their greedy hands into the pot. Do I think artists/movie makers should have some sort of protection, yes… but not at the extent of extorting the general consumer so someone can profit huge gains for over pricing garbage. Just because Dreamworks puts out a movie, doesn’t mean it’s GOOD or worth the same as another. This is why this system is fucked up. They try to keep everything on the same playing field and the public is finally starting to notice. When something is worth it, example Adele for instance, it sells and has made MILLIONS. Sorry not every artist is able to create something that the public will respond that well to EVERY time and sitting in some corporate chair debating on how to create that sort of money on every artist/movie is not even realistic. Most of the #’s MPAA/RIAA throw around as “loss” is fictional. You can’t project a profit using the same methods used in the 90′s.
      
      Plus, like someone else mentioned below, a LOT of stuff downloaded is due to it not being available to the public to begin with. Example: The Wonder Years TV show… regardless if you’d pay for it or not, it’s NOT available to anyone. Sure you might of gotten lucky and bought the two “best of” releases, but you can’t own the complete show. Why is that? Because before the MPAA/RIAA had their hands all up in everyone’s business, TV shows used music to relate with the public and didn’t need licenses to do so. Are you telling me, because I heard “The Doors” on a TV show I was just going to be satisfied and NOT buy an album all of a sudden bc it was available within an episode. (Which wasn’t even in most cases the FULL song..) Absolutely NOT. If anything, it probably helped the sale of the Band/Album due to bringing back some sort of memory attached to it.
      
      Regardless, the digital frontier is here and either these companies/corporations/etc.. can either join in or continue fighting the lost cause. There are PLENTY of ways to profit from original works these days, whether it’s from sites like Bandcamp, iTunes, YouTube, etc… not to mention re-vamped sites/services like Napster that the Corporations could use to their benefit to continue making money to close some of the gap. They just choose NOT to, and thinking the public will resort to buying music/movies only at stores is just not realistic or rational. People like things available at their finger tips.
      
      Whatever, I’m sure someone will talk shit about my post. I really don’t care. There are plenty of people out there who feel the same as me on this topic, and as long as people do, this will be an issue.
- Anon
  
  The RIAA/MPAA are given the right to act upon the behalf of the creator. MU/RS/etc. weren’t given this right. THAT is the difference. iTunes and others like them have the right idea selling songs individually. People can pay for only what they really want.
  
  That said., I find that there are too many corporate shills in this thread trying to take some kind of moral high ground. Lets face it, none of us are saints, so don’t give me some “you didn’t earn it so its illegal” moral bullshit. I download lots of stuff (roughly 100 TBs and counting)… most of it, stuff I can’t get in the US otherwise, but that doesn’t change the fact I downloaded it. I also own lots of stuff and make a good living. And don’t give me the “copying is…” bullshit. I work in copyright/patent/trademark/trade secrets (IP). I know exactly what it is.
http://profile.yahoo.com/VKI36PH5RENWX3BRUVLYEDZFTQ Joace

I am a 27 years old doctor,mature and beautiful. and now i am seeking a good man who can give me real love, so i got a sername Andromeda2002 on Agedate.?òM, a nice and free place for younger women and older men,or older women and younger men, to interact with each other.Maybe you wanna check out or tell your friends.
- Jake Sylvestre
  
  wtf?
http://profile.yahoo.com/VKI36PH5RENWX3BRUVLYEDZFTQ Joace

I am a 27 years old doctor,mature and beautiful. and now i am seeking a good man who can give me real love, so i got a sername Andromeda2002 on Agedate.?òM, a nice and free place for younger women and older men,or older women and younger men, to interact with each other.Maybe you wanna check out or tell your friends.
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Blah

All of these cyberlockers rely on piracy for the traffic. To say they are trying to drive away the pirates is simply a case of trying to cover their asses. Without piracy the bandwidth usage and cloud storage required would be a very small percentage of what is used today. Anyone denying this fact is utterly clueless.
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TDXI

It has nothing to do with driving pirates away. It is just away to try and get more money off people, now their competition is shut down.
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Krozar

RS for legit purposes? AHHA! What? Game mods and PHP forum plugins? Niggra please.
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http://twitter.com/rottedcockmeat rottedcockmeat

now, i could careless about downloading crap on the net, because it all sucks anyways, but here’s the thing, coming from a virtual content creator (me), I’ve asked myself many times “what makes a person ENTITLED to profit from something more than the number of times it took them to make it? How are things reproduced virtually in anyway on equal terms with things reproduced physically?

Answer:

THEY AREN’T. It’s an idea that somehow managed to perpetuate itself into the digital age, from a time and realm (the physical one) were it actually made sense. I’m just being honest with myself when I think of material I create. I know the time of making money off essentially non-existent things (that used to only be accessible via stores) is over. The tings I create are now easily disseminated on the net, and are far beyond my ability to control their reproduction. So my only real choice is to do what I do because I like it, and work a separate job to support myself, rather than selfishly think I can get away banking multiple times on something I physically only made once. And until business or society evolve to find a way to indirectly support my creative endeavors (via sponsorship or taxes), depending on how valuable they are, this is how it will remain.

And that’s what these gangster like entertainment kingpins are terrified of. Labor. They scratch and claw to stay mounted on the gravy train that is slowly melting away from beneath, and they’ll soon be grinding onto the tracks if they continue on their stubborn path.
- Anon
  
  Not saying you’re wrong. But another way of looking at it is that what you created hasn’t reached its true value yet and is on its way there. What you created is so valuable that people can’t afford it on their own and therefore everyone is pitching in small amounts to achieve the true value. Or, what is created isn’t valuable at all. I certainly don’t know.
  
  Those in the industry don’t want to have to work a second job as support and many can live off of royalties and licensing agreements. Actually, their “gravy train” value has gone up apparently based off recent revenue reports.
  
  Now a message for the corporate shills and morality police like lakawak. Stop being delusional. All pirates are children without jobs and education? You are some sort of saint? What have you done for society that the world will remember you when you die? You’re no better than any other poster in this blog. Trolling is fun huh?
  
  Come at me bro!
- theboywiththethorninhisside
  
  Hey there, what content do you create and where can I see / hear it to see if I might be interested in buying it?
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F4D

As I tested, the speed is limited only for files bigger than 50MB…
RS already sold itself to the devil & I’m sure if they haven’t sold the accounts that might contain “illegal” stuff to the FBI is just for fear of their reputation…
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Here’s an updated list of recommended Rapidshare, Megaupload etc sites and services: http://theshynola.com/2012/02/megaupload-filesonic-alternatives/
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Pumpkinmovies

I just tried downloading from Fileserve and it looks as if they are capping the speed for free users to 30 kbps now as well. Anyone else having this issue? Usually I get 300-400 kbps as a free user.
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Realitycheck

ill tell you what it is, all of you that are pro pay for everything with all your money and nice lives. Not everyone lives like you with health care and half decent jobs. Are we all not entitled to some quality of life? And you know mostly the people downloading arnt gonna buy it anyway….on top of that you got these frikin companies releasing games with bugs, need patching wont even work 5 years on. Operating Systems crashing left right and centre that we are the beta testers for. They still charge £££ for old rope they were charging ££££ for 10 years ago. And no the original artist dosnt see a dime. Ima musician and anyone can take my shit for free. The corporations again fleeing the economic wage slave to turn the cogs of there comfy lifestyle. More bentleys sold this last year in a time of economic crisis than any other time. Any people here that are pro-ill pay the price tag, bend over and reach around and look down my nose at pirates. I recognize none of you as human beings you greedy self rightous arrogant priks. YOU WILL GET WHAT YOU SEW. There is no roll out for any of this stuff anymore, no need for export costs, taxes, delivery, transport mediums. Its down the pipe. no overheads. Reward the artists, creators, casts, but ffs…try opening your eyes why dont ya..
- Theboywiththethorninhisside
  
  “Ima musician and anyone can take my shit for free.”
  
  Hi there Realitycheck. Where can I get your music ? Can you provide a link please?
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Don’t worry Realitycheck. . . The likes of Takawaz will be around soon to tell you what a piece of shit you are and how you have nothing of value to contribute to “society”. . .

Were heading toward repeating fascist history when you have the masses so brainwashed that they defend their right to servitude and economic slavery. How one can claim to understand mathematics yet cant comprehend the underlying truth of how it enslaves us all. . . Well. My point made, will not cause a ripple of thought in a mind thus implied, only a reaction. . .

Like running a program.
Anonamouse

Unless it’s porn why the fuck would you want to use a slow ass site like rapidshit?
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interesting,

the comments are still the best no matter what the content…

Who cares if you hate RapidShite or FuckLoading ( uploading ) or WhoreLoad ( wupload ); this should not be easy… i.e. deregulation is a prime example of what happens when its to easy;

…so if Rape-me-Shite wants to try and get those to pay ( for now ;) then have at it there are others.

DRM can’t stop anything, the war on drugs has stopped little ( actually made drugs more dangerous ) so suck it up build a bypass and wait until the US loses interest ( which is the same as a 2 year old child ) and then one will notice that the trickle for free services will widen but will never be another megaupload; hopefully better.

( grammar and punctuation might suck )
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theboywiththethorninhisside

Dude,

I am so interested in your digital content and your proposed business model.

Please give me a link to it so that I might determine whether you ought to be paid more than once for your digital content
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themerryreaper

Yawn… we wouldn’t need to ‘pirate’ if the stuff was available for a reasonable price and at at least the same standards of quality and convenience as from ‘pirate’ sites.

The copyright trolls here keep saying that it takes BILLIONS to make a movie… well when you look at Wim Delvoye’s cloaca machine, it takes millions to make a piece of shit and still I wouldn’t consume it even if they payed me for it. I would however inspect a piece for free to see what all the fuss is about.
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Dicks

this is probably the stupidest business strategy i have ever seen. it’s essentially a drm that DIRECTLY hurts even legitimate customers.
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http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones

For me at least, this is very relevant. It’s really amazing how much it practically seems like a lot of these companies just don’t want your money, and have this bizarro desire to either have you buy a physical copy or not buy it at all.
Anonymous

don’t feed the trolls, that’s the first lesson of the day, second lesson of the day, limiting bandwidth isn’t going to save rapidshare from any thing, it’s a pathetic attempt at covering their asses and it’s only going to hurt their business, IMO if RS wants to survive they need to get bigger, bigger than those lobbyist conglomerate fuckheads and then heard a team of lawyers into a think tank and find a way to pull off a reverse mega upload and turn the tables, but we all know that isn’t going to happen, it would be however nice to see the tables turned and to have shitty little lobyest groups in tears about how a conglomerate smashed their interests, but they’re in bed with politicians and vice versa, every last one of them is a puppet, so flush the idea that a company could hire a heard of lawyers and upfuck a hill and shove the scum back into its cave where it came from, no that’s up to the people.
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Mrbblee

“lakawak”

What you have shown in your so called arguments is that you are nothing more than a pompus idiot who seems to enjoy baiting others. If you’re dead set against file sharing why come to a site that offers news to do with the world of…wait let me think…Oh yes! Filesharing.

I openly admit I download files. Why? Because the prices charged by the movie industry and retailers in general is obscene. Why should I pay 15$/£ plus for a CD where half the songs suck? Why should I line the pockets of fat men in suits who will sign anything with a pulse as long as they look “right”? Why should I pay stupid amounts of money to go into a theatre to see something that might not be any good?

If the prices came down then YES I WOULD PAY. But until then why the fuck should I? I work hard. (although I won’t expect you to believe that seeing as how you think everybody who fileshares is unemployed and has some form of mental illness) VERY hard and I would happily pay money for all forms of entertainment if it were sold to me a reasonable price.

The truth of the matter is that people don’t want to be ripped off anymore. People are sick of paying for low quality products. If the studios/records companies/game producers want their profits to rise they need to start putting more effort in to what they put on in the shelves and in the cinema.

Now, please, go and troll elsewhere. You’re making my teeth hurt.
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They did it just to force customers to pay for PRO version…thats all……I wish nobody buys and they go broke
Fgdfgdfg

Obviously RS is not capping the upload speed to deter “illegal activities”!!! FAIL!
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Guest of a Guest

I use RS links. Just drop them into JDownloader and let it run. Slow as can be.

Still, I get my files when I come back from work/leisure/socializing/life in general and the download is complete. No fuss.

The stuff I DL is of course ‘illegal’. I am interesting in getting the files I want reliability. Speed is nice but being sure I get the correct and total file is most key to my wants.

I can only watch (in real time) one show or play one game at a time anyhow. For high speed: magnet URI torrents with mad seeds. Everything else, I take free user speed on file lockers.
GIRLLY

FUCKIN LOW LIFE WANT TO GET MORE RICH FOR THE MOVIE STARS . TO BUY ALEGATOR BOOTS 50 CARS AND SO ON . YOU COC ROUCHES
PUSSY

YOU SHOUD BE GUNED DOWN RIGHT BETWEEN THE EYES RIS COCKERS
NonamedGuest

The post is FAKE. I have contacted rapidshare and they said the above it is not true.
Those who are interested they can also send an email to rapidshare.
I am pasting their reply-email.

RapidShare AG – Support Team support@rapidshare.com

Mar 3 (2 days ago)

Dear customer,

kindly note that this is not true.

Best regards,

Ronald Swanson
RapidShare Support

RapidShare AG
Schochenmühlestrasse 6
6340 Baar
Switzerland

Telephone: +41 41 748 78 80
Fax: +41 41 748 78 99

Web: http://www.rapidshare.com
Email: support@rapidshare.com
- Anonymous
  
  Whats fake?
  
  The throttling is real.
  
  Its taking me an hour to DL 100 megs now, when it used to be 15 minutes.
  
  Bunk.
OSL

Interesting blog. Just a thought, but has anyone seen the hypocrisy of an American Government tracking down and punishing others for taking what they say is not theirs and should be paid for? Wonder why the US authorities are not arresting Bush, Cheney, Blair, etc. “Well, that our oil, under their sand and we’re taking it regardless of what they, or anyone else, thinks.”
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http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001567648746 Joseph Brown

You people are stupid! Pirating movies,games and music isn’t wrong! Those people are doing things they love, it’s not a job it’s a fucking hobby! Get a real job, like working 9-5! You say hollywood has to pay for it? Cut the bullshit, they make millions of dollars of gullible people who believe in being “goodie goodie.” Murder is wrong, getting a free copy of Avatar IS NOT!! Haha, so stop crying. Now, Software is different. People go to college to learn coding, and to learn proper engineering. That takes skill. Unlike touring the world and letting your vocals do the work. I’d love to make millions just singing or acting. Dream job baby!
Mohsen

I want to tell something to those say file copy is stealing. yes I agree with the part, says we must support people maid this contents, but our friends do you know how many percents of our money paid to them? I am sure it is under 2%. there would be a way to pay right money to right person.
TheDevil

That speed is unacceptable, at least make it the industry standard or how it was when RS was king of pirate links in 2000s 200-300kbps . They have a point though, I’m not paying a cent, I rather use torrents or other hosts. The pirates that pay are dumb, if you want to pay just join Netflix or something similar, don’t pay to steal something. Is like paying a robber money in order to steal in his neighborhood . The only thing that drove people back to RS was the high speed, now that is gone, people will stop posting content because is just a waste of time.
Cuteulala

Look everyone its only like a buck for a few songs now days lol and like 20 to 60 bucks for a pc game if you cant afford that then i think you live under a bridge with a laptop on wifi seriously its cheap as hell to buy it and guess what NO wiating on downloads.
Weewoo

heres a solution…. MEDIAFIRE!!!! theyve never changed. im getting 300kbps right now thats not too bad. honestly im not going to pay 60 dollars for a game i most likely wont like. i hate alot of modern games and what theyve become atleast if i get it free im not losing anything.
- Weewoo
  
  on another note…. i like alot of old games….alot of those old games such as Ultima 7 and stuff from the DOS days can not be found in a Bestbuy or Target or EA games. i like old stuff and if i can get it for free and not risk getting screwed over on Ebay ill take that option. besides im in canada its not as strict here. and…. yeah why make a big deal out of this. rapidshare will lose business and pull their heads out of their arse in due time. meanwhile we can easily find alternatives. honestly even when rapidshare first came out they were crap anyways i always prefered Mediafire theyre reliable enough and if they go down i guess ill have to get them by other means. and if you disagree with me i openly chalange you to go out and find the good old games that were made with care and attention to detail. and you tell me you can find a decent game now adays like before and at a reasonable price. shits expensive the economy is in the toilet and im sure like alot of people we have other things we would rather spend money on than line some greedy bastards wallet so he can buy another bently. im tired of paying 50-70 bucks for crap then when i dont liek the game and try to take it back most stores have no other decent options. yeah i have a life i make 145’682$ a year and im not giving a cent to the corporations who profit off people stupid enough to let them do so. look at the cost of one trip to the movie theatre now compared to say…. 10 years ago. as the quality of movies went down due to horrible uneducated screenwriters and over CGed effects as well as alot of directors who need a swift kick in the ass. the whole world is going to shit. i personaly could care less what happens anymore if i can get something for free in one option vs paying for it ill take it. im sure alot fo people feel this way
Cream

If I could download my dinner, I would! Wouldn’t you?
3-4 clicks and you can either (A) pay for some software, or (B) download it for free. Either route you take, the software/music/movie will be the same. What you gonna do? I know what I do!
Nobody Better

Didn’t the government just take trillions of dollars of our own money and you people defend online media as the culprit. Digital downloads can never be regulated…I’m not going to waste any time arguing because every one here is trying to release some type of opinion that isn’t worth anything to anybody, humans we all love our selves….and no body else, we all think we’re superior…..you are and will never be better than anyone else, the pirate is the hard working man and vice versa. Don’t read this message because I can already tell you have an opinion. I will not be back to read your responses. Have a good day *wink* ;)
Guest

NEW LAW – “Internet Freedom Share Act” Sharing any and all digital content over the World Wide Web shall be considered, understood and known to not be infringing on any copyright or trademark.
Guest

“Internet Freedom Share Act” Not possible? think again muthafucka!!! Read this: http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/08/15/democrats-consider-officially-supporting-internet-freedom-gop-to-discuss-issue

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