• File-sharing icon Rapidshare shuts down
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[b]File-sharing icon Rapidshare shuts down[/b] Source: [url=http://torrentfreak.com/file-sharing-icon-rapidshare-shuts-150210/]Torrentfreak[/url] _______________ [quote][i]RapidShare, once the most popular file-hosting service in the Internet, has announced that it will shut down next month. The company doesn't cite a reason for the surprising shutdown, but losing the majority of its users in recent years after the implementation of tough anti-piracy measures is likely to be connected.[/i] Founded in 2002, Swiss-based RapidShare was one of the first and most popular one-click file-hosting services on the Internet. Like most sites of this nature, RapidShare was frequently used by people to share copyright-infringing material. It was a relationship that got the company into trouble on various occasions. RapidShare fought many legal battles with entertainment companies seeking to hold the company liable for the actions of its users, and to top it off the site was called out by the U.S. Government as a “notorious market.” Hoping to clear up its image the company made tremendous efforts to cooperate with copyright holders and limit copyright infringements. Among other things, the company adopted one of the most restrictive sharing policies while (re)branding itself as a personal cloud storage service. The anti-piracy measures seemed to work, but as a result RapidShare’s visitor numbers plunged. The dwindling revenues eventually cost most of RapidShare’s employees their jobs. Today marks the beginning of the final chapter in RapidShare’s controversial history. The company just announced that it will shut down at the end of March and is recommending that users store their files elsewhere. [img]http://i.imgur.com/SuzYlTw.png[/img] “Kindly note that RapidShare will stop the active service on March 31st, 2015. Extensions of STANDARD PLUS and PREMIUM will be possible until February 28th, 2015,” RapidShare writes on its homepage. “We strongly recommend all customers to secure their data. After March 31st, 2015 all accounts will no longer be accessible and will be deleted automatically,” the company adds. TF asked the company for further details on the planned shutdown but we have yet to hear back. The most likely explanation is that RapidShare can’t sustain its business with the smaller number of users it has today. The demise of RapidShare marks the end of an era. Half a decade ago RapidShare was listed among the 50 most-visited sites on the Internet, with hundreds of millions of page-views per month, but in a just a few weeks it will be gone.[/quote] Goodnight, sweet prince. You'll be dearly missed.
Holy shit that happened.
[U]What[/U] That was unexpected
I completely forgot rapidshare existed.
[QUOTE=Zambies!;47114538][U]What[/U] That was unexpected[/QUOTE] Was it really? I don't think it was.
[QUOTE=Zambies!;47114538][U]What[/U] That was unexpected[/QUOTE] 2 years ago they let go 75% of their staff, just to keep afloat a bit more... holy balls. :/ [quote][i]RapidShare is fighting through a crisis after a massive downturn in business forced it to fire three-quarters of its workforce, an insider has revealed. After being labeled a "rogue site" by the U.S. Government, in 2011 the file-hosting service reportedly burned through half a million euros lobbying in the United States to save its reputation. The company is now struggling to find a new path after severing ties with millions of former users.[/i][/quote] [url=http://torrentfreak.com/rapidshare-fires-75-of-its-staff-after-rogue-site-revamp-bites-130519/]Source[/url] from Torrentfreak as well.
Since there's a date set, someone should really go through and try to preserve the files that are ONLY hosted there. I've had issues with that in the past where a file I needed or desired such as a mod or an independently released free-to-download album was only available on a file-sharing site as a legit download, and then when they culled it or shut down everything was lost.
About damn time.
Nowadays we have dropbox, google drive, mega, abundantly available personal VPS storage, and many small sites that don't give you any hassle or waiting. It is time.
RS was still alive? I haven't heard of anyone using it in years.
[QUOTE=bitches;47114570]Nowadays we have dropbox, google drive, mega, abundantly available personal VPS storage, and many small sites that don't give you any hassle or waiting. It is time.[/QUOTE] WAITNG, the key word there. Looking back, and seeing how they made us wait 1 minute to download a file... jesus christ, it's no wonder they're belly up now.
Not unexpected but damn, so many dead links again.
[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;47114582]WAITNG, the key word there. Looking back, and seeing how they made us wait 1 minute to download a file... jesus christ, it's no wonder they're belly up now.[/QUOTE] They also throttle the shit out of you if you aren't a paid member
Good riddance. It was the worst "free-but-limited-download-speeds-unless-you-buy-a-month-of-membership-for-$40" file host out there. You will not be missed.
MEGA is where it's at. I really hope Kim manages to keep it alive.
rightly deserving of the nickname RapidShit, i'm glad this 100kb/s hell is finally off the internet so that people who upload stuff are forced to use something better
[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;47114582]WAITNG, the key word there. Looking back, and seeing how they made us wait 1 minute to download a file... jesus christ, it's no wonder they're belly up now.[/QUOTE] Also they limited download speeds for free and unregistered users. Pretty much their downfall was when they had to compete with MegaUpload and Mediafire. MegaUpload took like 15 seconds to download, but 15 seconds was not too much an issue as up to RapidShare's minute, especially for larger files than Mediafire allowed at the time and uncapped speeds. Mediafire at worst you have to input a captcha to confirm the download and it is instant, but used to not allow huge files. They got a bit of a break when MegaUpload was taken down, but that has since ended with the huge powerhouse of mega.co.nz Now with Megaconz and Google drive you have a cloud drive service integrated with your filehosting service that is easy as hell to use. Heck for free filehosting mega is amazing with it's management capability and the 50 gb storage with 10gb of bandwidth every 30 minutes. Oh yeah and folder sharing to share entire folder systems to provide a download listing with batch or individual downloading from a single link.
[QUOTE=FFStudios;47114635]rightly deserving of the nickname RapidShit, i'm glad this 100kb/s hell is finally off the internet so that people who upload stuff are forced to use something better[/QUOTE] dont worry shit upload sites are a dime a dozen
[QUOTE=Lordgeorge16;47114607]Good riddance. It was the worst "free-but-limited-download-speeds-unless-you-buy-a-month-of-membership-for-$40" file host out there. You will not be missed.[/QUOTE] but all the hosted content
[QUOTE=rampageturke 2;47114706]but all the hosted content[/QUOTE] It's probably been rehosted elsewhere.
I remember I used to browse /rs/ on 4chan a lot. A shitload of good porn and old Gmod models are hosted in that labyrinth of forgotten data.
[QUOTE=Muskof;47114728]It's probably been rehosted elsewhere.[/QUOTE] That's what I thought when Megaupload was shut down. I was very wrong.
[QUOTE=Durrsly;47114737]That's what I thought when Megaupload was shut down. I was very wrong.[/QUOTE] What were you looking for?
[QUOTE=Grimhound;47114562]Since there's a date set, someone should really go through and try to preserve the files that are ONLY hosted there. I've had issues with that in the past where a file I needed or desired such as a mod or an independently released free-to-download album was only available on a file-sharing site as a legit download, and then when they culled it or shut down everything was lost.[/QUOTE] Archive Team will probably try [url]http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=RapidShare[/url]
[QUOTE=Muskof;47114748]What were you looking for?[/QUOTE] Unofficial patches, Wizardry 8 mods, and Morrowind mods that aren't on Nexus, Great House Fliggerty, or Morrowind Modding History.
My god I remember when every gmod file was hosted on rapidshare.de those were (not) the times
Hey look, 100% compliance with DMCA can kill a website devoted to sharing. Who knew? Doubt it will affect any policy maker since they tend never to notice how devistating our terribly outdated cyberpolicies are
With the demise of Rapidshare, is jDownloader still a thing?
[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;47114992]With the demise of Rapidshare, is jDownloader still a thing?[/QUOTE] Doesn't Jdownloader support other file-sharing websites as well?
JDownloader supports basically everything but last time I checked more and more websites are building countermeasures against it because they want people to actually access the page itself for ad revenue and such. Besides, JDownloader is really hard to install without stumbling on at least one piece of malicious software because the damn thing's being updated every day of the week and the download links for a setup have been thrown around the internet back and forth forever.
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