STOP Rapidshare MONOPOLY !!!

[Faun]

To: RapidShare(.com) AG Rapidshare.com is a file hosting service that was launched back in 2006 (variant of original Rapidshare.de)

Rapidshare, is one of the most popular filehosting websites currently avaliable. It is used as a file transfer service for personal files such as vacation pictures and private movies so users can upload their favourite files and share them with friends.

However, over the past months, Rapidshare has been very unfair in terms of it's service.

Such examples include:

1) Free users cannot download a file that contains more than 1 part without waiting for a period of time (usually 1/2 - 1 an hour) despite the filesize of the item they are downloading

2) Do not provide fair terms

- They are claiming to have Unlimited Downloads, however in reality you are allocated 5gb each day. Now this may be a lot but for some it is simply not enough. This was originally truly unlimited but now it's decreased

-- Originally, if you bought a 'Premium' account, the files you uploaded under that account would be kept until the lifetime of your 'Premium' account. However Rapidshare.com just imposed a new restriction meaning if you had over 20gb in your account your items would be pruned (files are no longer kept, as they will delete unused files)

Now, premium users like me did not accept such terms when we bought our accounts. Some of us are long term account holders from the very beginning, and we believe Rapidshare is very unfair for loyal users like me and you.

They know they are a popular file service and are monopolyizing the market.

I believe they should go back to what it was:

1) Give free users decent speed and increase file download usages, such as 500mb per hour or something, instead of the current measly 1-2mb allowance

2) Abolish the recent restriction of the 'XXL' tag that prunes the account holders files if they are past the 20gb mark.

3) Give truly Unlimited downloads. Abolish the 5gb per day mark.

Rapidshare should stop abusing their privilage as a popular filehost, and go back to what it was like before a few months ago. It is now restricted and people are not getting what THEY ORIGINALLY PAID FOR.

Please sign this petition if you believe in any of the points I mentioned. Let's get the same Rapidshare we all fell in love with in the beginning!



http://www.petitiononline.com/rsp07/petition.html


I don't know will it work or not, even I dont care abt rapidsh!t but still monopoly sucks.

[narangz]

Signed.

[din]

I think SkyDrive is better. But has the 50 MB limit. Everything like simultaneous download etc supported.

Thread in forum - Introducing Windows Live SkyDrive!

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[kumarmohit]

Signing, though I have a dynamic IP

@ din

Skydrive has 5 GB limit AFAIK. I find AOL X drive to be the best. It even allows you to map itself like a network drive on Windows!

[Pat]

Originally Posted by T159

To: RapidShare(.com) AG Rapidshare.com is a file hosting service that was launched back in 2006 (variant of original Rapidshare.de)

However, over the past months, Rapidshare has been very unfair in terms of it's service.

Such examples include:

1) Free users cannot download a file that contains more than 1 part without waiting for a period of time (usually 1/2 - 1 an hour) despite the filesize of the item they are downloading

2) Do not provide fair terms

- They are claiming to have Unlimited Downloads, however in reality you are allocated 5gb each day. Now this may be a lot but for some it is simply not enough. This was originally truly unlimited but now it's decreased

I dont quite agree with this.

1. How else do you expect them to cover the server/bandwidth costs ? If all free users get to download 500 MB per hour,rs would lose most of the prospective premium account buyers.

2. Its 50 GB per 5 days (I guess that should be enough, unless someone is addicted to HD p0rn :-P)

[NucleusKore]

If you don't like it don't use it. Instead of rapidshare premium go for ftp
http://www.cheapftpspace.com/

I host my iso files there

[krazzy]

Even I don't like RapidShare, especially stupid stuff like inability to pause and resume download and the waiting period after every large file download. But they have some incredible stuff stored with them. So I always end up going there again and again.

[Sumeet_naik]

Signed.. Coz i don't have a rapidshare account..

[s18000rpm]

waiting time is now 30 seconds

no need to restart the modem, no captchas....

[MetalheadGautham]

The one and only reason people use RapidShare and not MediaFire is because rapidshare has lots and lots of illegal pirated material hosted in it which people are after. End of story.

Have you noticed that people who care a lot about legality never use RS and instead use Mediafire ?

[amitava82]

Looks like we have grown a habit of using free stuffs... and attaching "monopoly" tag to every other (successful) companies

[a_k_s_h_a_y]

DIE Rapidshare.
All losers badly need it.

[MetalheadGautham]

Originally Posted by amitava82

Looks like we have grown a habit of using free stuffs... and attaching "monopoly" tag to every other (successful) companies

RS does not have "monopoly". It just has lots of free content that otherwise costs a hell lot of money.

Your statement in a way contradicts itself.

[axxo]

Originally Posted by amitava82

Looks like we have grown a habit of using free stuffs... and attaching "monopoly" tag to every other (successful) companies

that doesn't meant all free stuffs are crap or worthless. Gmail - best free mail service Firefox best browser in the world - free...like this there are n numbers.

[amitava82]

Originally Posted by MetalheadGautham

RS does not have "monopoly". It just has lots of free content that otherwise costs a hell lot of money.

Your statement in a way contradicts itself.

What that has to do with RS?

Originally Posted by axxo

that doesn't meant all free stuffs are crap or worthless. Gmail - best free mail service Firefox best browser in the world - free...like this there are n numbers.

Did I say so? I'm not gonna explain how Google can afford to offer free mail or search engine. Yahoo mail does not offer free POP service whereas you get free POP with Gmail. You don't go n complain to ppl about that, do you? You want POP with Yahoo mail? Buy premium service or else switch to Gmail.

RS is here to make money, not for charity. Just enjoy what you are getting free from them OR get some alternatives (if FREE is what you want). Tell me, why would people even bother to buy premium accounts IF RS starts giving same service for free accounts?

[MetalheadGautham]

Originally Posted by amitava82

Did I say so? I'm not gonna explain how Google can afford to offer free mail or search engine. Yahoo mail does not offer free POP service whereas you get free POP with Gmail. You don't go n complain to ppl about that, do you? You want POP with Yahoo mail? Buy premium service or else switch to Gmail.

RS is here to make money, not for charity. Just enjoy what you are getting free from them OR get some alternatives (if FREE is what you want). Tell me, why would people even bother to buy premium accounts IF RS starts giving same service for free accounts?

+1. Fully agreed.

But at the same time, you must understand how RS economy REALLY works. The more warez people upload in RS, the richer it gets. Though they discourage it as per laws on their TOS, internally they KNOW that if not for the fact that nearly ANY movie or album is uploaded in RS, along with nearly ANY software, and lots of pr0n, RS would never have been as successful.

Originally Posted by amitava82

What that has to do with RS?

Just a point.

[amitava82]

Then governments should ban Alcohol and Tobacco business too.. even though they too know that those stuffs kill ppl. But they woun't coz. You know why?

[FilledVoid]

But at the same time, you must understand how RS economy REALLY works. The more warez people upload in RS, the richer it gets. Though they discourage it as per laws on their TOS, internally they KNOW that if not for the fact that nearly ANY movie or album is uploaded in RS, along with nearly ANY software, and lots of pr0n, RS would never have been as successfu

You just reconfirmed with what amitava said lol.

RS is here to make money, not for charity. Just enjoy what you are getting free from them OR get some alternatives (if FREE is what you want). Tell me, why would people even bother to buy premium accounts IF RS starts giving same service for free accounts?

At the end of the day its all about the money.

[Ethan_Hunt]

As a free user RS had made file sharing hell.I have now got myself a premium a/c & am very much satisfied with it.My only gripe is with it's new a/c sharing system wherein it bans a/c for a short period when there is a switch in the IP or they find the a/c being used simultaneously in different IP subnet.This is absurd as I have a Dynamic IP system & I can't go static due to this stupid rule.My download links sometimes randomly turn in HTML links & those links take me to RS's site saying "The IP XYZ is in use on another computer" or something like that.And in reality it's only in use on my own computer.

This is the only issue I have.Apart from that I am fully satisfied with it's speed & content.

[MetalheadGautham]

Originally Posted by FilledVoid

You just reconfirmed with what amitava said lol.

I know.

Originally Posted by FilledVoid

At the end of the day its all about the money.

The big fat answer: YES.


Offtopic: Isn't it intresting that people are willing to shell out lots of money for a Rapidshare premium account and at the same time use it for illegal activities ? I mean, why don't people instead cheat RS itself ?

[axxo]

Originally Posted by amitava82

What that has to do with RS?

Did I say so? I'm not gonna explain how Google can afford to offer free mail or search engine. Yahoo mail does not offer free POP service whereas you get free POP with Gmail. You don't go n complain to ppl about that, do you? You want POP with Yahoo mail? Buy premium service or else switch to Gmail.

RS is here to make money, not for charity. Just enjoy what you are getting free from them OR get some alternatives (if FREE is what you want). Tell me, why would people even bother to buy premium accounts IF RS starts giving same service for free accounts?

alright but thats not the thread is all about, they pulled out few offerings what existing premium members were enjoying before. I dont think yahoo did the same to their premium customers by reducing the mail box size or something similar or did they?

[Pat]

Originally Posted by MetalheadGautham

I mean, why don't people instead cheat RS itself ?

What makes you think they dont ? I have myself seen numerous "bypassing restrictions", "bypassing download limits" threads,blog posts,articles ! They are all around!

[MetalheadGautham]

Originally Posted by Pat

What makes you think they dont ? I have myself seen numerous "bypassing restrictions", "bypassing download limits" threads,blog posts,articles ! They are all around!

not all people do it. many swear by RS premium as if it is something god-like, and they behave like RS gives them all those movies for free LEGALLY.

[Ethan_Hunt]

Originally Posted by MetalheadGautham

not all people do it. many swear by RS premium as if it is something god-like, and they behave like RS gives them all those movies for free LEGALLY.

So does that pinch your butt for some reason? It's their money & their wish to pay for that service.If you don't like it then move away from it.

[MetalheadGautham]

Originally Posted by allwyndlima

So does that pinch your butt for some reason? It's their money & their wish to pay for that service.If you don't like it then move away from it.

When did I say that pinches my butt ? I am merely mocking it.
Let me guess: You use RS Premium ?

[goobimama]

I don't see why there is such a big hoopla about Rapidshare. Given that many people abroad have huge amounts of bandwidth, capping that to 10GB (per day?) is the only feasable solution for Rapidshare to survive.

And as for cheating Rapidshare, more often than not, the technique doesn't work. So hunting around for a method, only to find RS has plugged that hole a few days later doesn't work quite as well. The premium account isn't all that expensive anyway.

That is why Torrents are the best way to go, as there is no central server to go down with the load. Unlimited transfers for everyone.

And as for personal file sharing, I would much rather go with SkyDrive (haven't tried it yet, but since Din says its good, must be good) or iDisk which has the best interface for hosting and sharing files.