Why is RapidShare so slow?
July 28th, 2013
search google for rapidshare and you would find they capped free users to 30kb/s with no resumable downloads.
Because of whats happened lately all free users are knocked back to 30kb/s suppose there trying to get us to go premium.
Because Megaupload has been shut down and Filesonic have disabled public file sharing, Rapidshare now think they have no big rivals, and as such they are bottlenecking downloads on a free account. Because they’re bastards.
pandorasbox replied: Because Megaupload has been shut down and Filesonic have disabled public file sharing, Rapidshare now think they have no big rivals, and as such they are bottlenecking downloads on a free account. Because they're bastards.
Exactly.
Wouldn’t it be great if there was an uprising and people boycott them and then see how mighty and superior they feel.
This is from Torrentfreak
http://torrentfreak.com/rapidshare-slows-download-speeds-to-drive-away-pirates-120224/
It’s slow because you don’t have a premium account
As some of you have noticed already, we have reduced download speeds for free users (currently about 30 kb/s). We have been forced to implement this measure as a result of significantly increased abuse statistics after recent external events.
We are aware that this restriction also affects the legitimate use of RapidShare. Please be assured that we will optimize our procedures as soon as possible in order to avoid such collateral damage.
http://www.facebook.com/RapidShare/posts/345033505540752
RapidShare limits free download speeds to discourage pirates:
http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/24/2822043/rapidshare-free-download-speed-limit-piracy
All these hosters know full well what’s being up and downloaded.
Come on.
700 meg tv shows are just that.
It’s not a 700 meg jpeg lol.
And they may not want to admit it but they rely on warez to make money.
Just like the ISP A make money on the same thing.
We could all go back to dialup if all we can do is read emails.