Rapidshare

userfriendly2

I'm a big torrent downloader but i've heard a lot about this rapidshare thing and that I can download numerous links all at max speed and that they are also usually great quality. I know I have to pay 50 quid for the year but it seems worth it. I know a lad who uses it and he said it's brill. But is there anyone here who uses it and can tell me how it works??? I've never used a download manager before and was wonderin do i need this??

celtboy1888

i have used it in the past...for downloading 'legal' stuff:);) a very handy site..well worth the money.

userfriendly2

Legal stuff of course...

How exactly does it work??

celtboy1888

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RapidShare

people put stuff up on site...you pay to get it..well you pay to get it at faster rates than others..

onemorechance

Rapidshare is a file hosting service when you can store your files online. Each file you store on rapidshare will have a unique download link which you can share with others if you want, to allow them to download your file. Copyright laws apply to rapidshare too!

userfriendly2

Thanks guys nice one

54kroc

It's a great service and well worth the money.
You get 5gb daily allowance which you can build up to 25gb and between 01.00 and 08.00 they have happy hours when what you download only takes 10% from your allowance.

imitation

I wouldn't bother buying the membership, rapidshare is becoming the new piratebay, and while the piratebay didnt even host the files, rapidshare does, so I can see it getting shutdown any month now. Just type in any song name (or just about anything) into google and you get spammed with rapidshare search engines.

On top of this when you sign up, your leaving indisputable proof of what you are downloading, It would probably take all of 5 seconds for them to make a list with your name and address on top of it and all the stuff you`ve downloaded underneath it. Id imagine there is alot more work figuring it out from torrents, and getting a complete list would be very hard. Of course if its legal stuff I`m sure you`ll be fine :pac:

PogMoThoin

Newsgroups>Rapidshare

imitation

PogMoThoin wrote: »

Newsgroups>Rapidshare

Back in the day IRC was king, dunno if it is anymore though..

Diddy Kong

From the RapidShare privacy policy

Will RapidShare communicate information about the files a customer has downloaded to third parties?

* No. RapidShare does not store this information. Accordingly, we could not pass on this information, even if we wanted to. The prohibition of such logs is an inherent part of the contract for all our customers and we don't handle this differently for those who use the Free hosting either.

PogMoThoin

imitation wrote: »

Back in the day IRC was king, dunno if it is anymore though..

Yes it is. Although it is a little more expensive, but not much The choice and quality is much better. Stuff gets uploaded to usenet first, before RS. There is no chance of it being removed before I get to download it (which happens with RS).

imitation

Diddy Kong wrote: »

From the RapidShare privacy policy

I wouldnt trust them as far as I could throw them, and when information is all going back to a centralised server there is more than one way to see whos downloading what.

Cuddlesworth

They are located in Germany, are a thriving business, remove links to copyrighted material on their own and by request. Nobody can try to sue them as they themselves are not doing anything wrong. And to compare this to Piratebay is a little off, pirate bay became a political point and as always happens in went in favor of the politicians. This was nobody's fault but its owners who deliberately made it a political point.

Rapidshare.com is a large scale business and is willing to put its money and lawyers where its mouth is.

Viper_JB

userfriendly2 wrote: »

I'm a big torrent downloader but i've heard a lot about this rapidshare thing and that I can download numerous links all at max speed and that they are also usually great quality. I know I have to pay 50 quid for the year but it seems worth it. I know a lad who uses it and he said it's brill. But is there anyone here who uses it and can tell me how it works??? I've never used a download manager before and was wonderin do i need this??

I'd highly recommend rs for all your downloading needs use free download manager to manage the downloads really handy for batch downloads. You'll also need to find a good forum for links, I'll air on the side of caution and not post any links here however a quick google search will get ya what you need.

h4ck573r

if you wish to pay for "legal" stuff download, take usenext than, it is nice and fast.

TestTransmission

Rapidshare,well worth the money

Yawns

I wouldn't pay for a year membership as someone already posted that as bit torrent sites are being shut down, rapidshare is a highly likely candidate to be closed soon enough. Perhaps end of year or next year. Afaik they host the files on their servers so they would be more likely responsible than torrent users. But other than that it is a good service for now

Ronan Keating

What kind of legal stuff would you be paying for exactly?

Cuddlesworth

Yawns wrote: »

I wouldn't pay for a year membership as someone already posted that as bit torrent sites are being shut down, rapidshare is a highly likely candidate to be closed soon enough. Perhaps end of year or next year. Afaik they host the files on their servers so they would be more likely responsible than torrent users. But other than that it is a good service for now

Lets make this very clear. Pirate bay didn't host files on their servers, but they did flaunt the fact that they were pointing towards copyrighted material. This lead to bad press and the eventual court case. Which is still in appeals I believe after the huge level of bias that was placed on the case by the judge.

Rapidshare.com delete any reported materials. They are in reality no different than youtube, facebook, boards.ie or any other user generated content. They don't take responsibility for files/content uploaded by users but will remove them upon request or on internal checks.

Crasher12

Hi everybody,
I found new fileserver.
airspeedfiles.com

Does anybody know it?
What's your experience?

Bigdeadlydave

On a kinda related topic, what dl managers do you guys use?

Lenny

Internet download manager is what I've always been using, rs is king. Dow loaded 26 gig there last Friday

Wolflikeme

Bigdeadlydave wrote: »

On a kinda related topic, what dl managers do you guys use?

jDownloader FTW. It's class.

Sosa

I use jdownloader...its great.
They download in rar files and jdownloader extracts them into avi format (once you have winrar of course)

BopNiblets

I use Universal Share Downloader, it queues up the links you copy into it and downloads them when they're ready, sure it takes longer but it's free!

Site is Russian but under the screenshots are the download links, with (7.2MB) beside them.
http://www.dimonius.ru/?usd

As for rapidshare it's not great as it used to be, I get a lot of these errors:
"Currently a lot of users are downloading files."

Wolflikeme

Sosa wrote: »

I use jdownloader...its great.
They download in rar files and jdownloader extracts them into avi format (once you have winrar of course)

Also, once you highlight and copy the links you want jDownloader will 'grab' them for you.

Cabaal

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

They are located in Germany, are a thriving business, remove links to copyrighted material on their own and by request. Nobody can try to sue them as they themselves are not doing anything wrong. And to compare this to Piratebay is a little off, pirate bay became a political point and as always happens in went in favor of the politicians. This was nobody's fault but its owners who deliberately made it a political point.

Rapidshare.com is a large scale business and is willing to put its money and lawyers where its mouth is.

You keep believing that, it will be a target and rightly so as you can't continue to operate a business when the vast majority of it is based on users downloading copyright material

Bigdeadlydave

Wolflikeme wrote: »

Also, once you highlight and copy the links you want jDownloader will 'grab' them for you.

Is that free and does it boost download speed?

Wolflikeme

Bigdeadlydave wrote: »

Is that free and does it boost download speed?

Yeah it's free. Just 'Google' it.

I find it fast - way faster than speed download - which I was using on my old Macbook.

Voodu Child

Bigdeadlydave wrote: »

On a kinda related topic, what dl managers do you guys use?

I use FDM. I don't have an opinion on what is the 'best' etc, I just use it out of familiarity and because I have it all set up the way I like it. Works with my rapidshare premium accounts just fine.