Important changes at RapidShare.com

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naughto wrote: »

question how can you find out when your accoiunt expires??

Should say it on the Premium Zone Login Page > Account Overview Section
EDIT: Doesnt seem to any more, just gives your remaining rapids now

naughto

thats what i thought cant see it thought

My account expires in January, I think. Doesn't seem to say anymore on the site, though.

Just sent them an email saying I wanted to cancel. May go with Hotfile.

jeffk

Deleted User wrote: »

My account expires in January, I think. Doesn't seem to say anymore on the site, though.

Just sent them an email saying I wanted to cancel. May go with Hotfile.

Do go with hotfile, €46 for the year and no daily download limit. Plus every site seems to be hotfile first choice.

horse7

anyone heard or tryed nowdownloadall.com ,?

With Rapidshare I usually have ~350 KB/s, will hotfile be the same? I've heard taht they often can be slower than rapdishare?

Bob_Harris

Hotfile's privacy policy doesn't seem to be great compared to Rapidshare's.

NothingMan

Deleted User wrote: »

With Rapidshare I usually have ~350 KB/s, will hotfile be the same? I've heard taht they often can be slower than rapdishare?

I signed up to hotfile last night as it seems rapidshare files are already disappearing fast. Download speed was as fast as it ever was on RS. Definitely reccomend it on what i've seen so far. $9 = €7.xx for 30 days. Defo worth a trial.

horse7

looking at sharingmatrix,is there a search engin for files to be found on sharematrix.

stevek93

Ive worked out that for a account of 356 days at 20gb per day you will need 28,470 rapids which 20,000 rapids costs you €199.00! Were as they they provided a 25gb per day for 365 days a year at €55.00 which we were all happy with.
I can see rapidshare this time next year in the history books if they don't see very soon they have made a HUGE mistake, hotfile are laughing at rs now and so many other site.

Stinicker

NothingMan wrote: »

I signed up to hotfile last night as it seems rapidshare files are already disappearing fast. Download speed was as fast as it ever was on RS. Definitely reccomend it on what i've seen so far. $9 = €7.xx for 30 days. Defo worth a trial.

At least Happy Hour is alive, this will allow me to take down 8GB HD films on the Rapidlite and actually cost less, however if I need something in a hurry during the day then it is a huge drawback. Rapidshare will atrophy and wither and die because of this, I already have a Hotfile and Depositfiles account and nearly anything you want on Rapidshare can now be found on Hotfile if you know where to look. Depositfiles is poor and seems to be only used for hosting porn really, my one month sub will not be renewed when it expires as there is no files on it that is not already on RS or HF.

I got a Hotfile account for US$55 or €42.22 (at the exchange rate two months ago). Speeds are the same as rapidshare and if your line will support it, then Hotfile will suck all the bandwidth you can give it. Newer uploads are now not appearing as much in RS and HF and MU are in the ascendancy.

generalmiaow

the idea of buying a certain number of "rapids" keeps making me think of primary school. being able to do a "ghostie" with a match would be worth one rapid but having a mountain bike would be worth 10 rapids which makes one deadly.

sink

Has anyone successfully cancelled their account and gotten a refund yet?

Max Power1

Absolutely and uterrly ridiculous, why change a system that worked fine?
They have now succeeded in losing their place as the most dominant player in the market.

Megaupload/Hotfile... here I come!

tman

So glad that I only extended for another 30 days 2 weeks ago! They've lost themselves a loyal customer with me, and it sounds like I'm not the only one!
Hope you've all been sending an email to support@rapidshare.com....

AntiRip

I can't understand why they did this especially after they got rid of their CEO Bobby Chang back in April. Apparently he wanted to do a deal with the entertainment industry....then they shoot themselves in the foot anyway!


torrentfreak.com

Recently we revealed that Chang had sent out a letter to entertainment industry representatives, looking for partnerships and licensing deals. In this letter he labeled some of RapidShare’s users as ‘criminals’ who would see their accounts terminated more rapidly.
According to Chang, RapidShare would be working on a changed course where they would focus increasingly at converting illegal downloaders into paid customers. Whether or not the plans described in this letter have anything to do with Chang’s sudden departure is open for speculation.

Gonzo_Reporter

I consider myself a smart person, like the rest who have posted here, ive even managed to assemble a few letters after my name and im still confused to what they tried to sell me? But more to the point WHY are they changing their business model?
What in all seriousness what was wrong with the old model???

It was more expensive than their rising rivals (€10 more than Hotfile), they have a huge marketshare and were proven to protection users privacy... it was trusted and that says a lot in todays climate of Eircom and the Digital Economy Act.
I cant see any other motivation for this than money or at east more money in the short run anyways, because they will lose it once they lose their customer base.
Im an average user i barely hit my daily quotas but i will get less value for what i paid for as, like most people use JDownloader rather than the RS site to download, so i know ill forget to reset my tariff everyday.
Im gonna bleed this thing dry and more on.


"Its like that old comedy sketch on TV, how do you get people to smack themselves in the face with a plastic hammer? Tell them they will get “points” for every time they do it."---- found this quite apt

El Horseboxo

Only noticed this new system today. I only bought a year long account recently and now they introduce this shíte. I hope to God they are bombarded with complaints and requests for cancellation. Do they not understand that they would make more money if they just kept things simple and give their users what they want. Complete and utter idiots must run the show at RS.

iMuse

Unless they backtrack ill be going with hotfile or megaupload at the end of next month, no harm in trialing them to see which works out best

Kiith

So i've been paying month by month up till now. They cant take anymore money from me without my consent, regardless of how much i download before my sub runs out ya?

Bob_Harris

Bob_Harris wrote: »

Hotfile's privacy policy doesn't seem to be great compared to Rapidshare's.

How do you mean?

I've emailed RS; to cancel my account. Told them i wasnt happy with the new system but would be happy to stay if the old system returned.

Mr_Cheech

Hi everyone. New here and just found out about the changes today. Tis is the best forum I found for discussing this mess. Thanks for the nice infos so far!
Wierd thing is my account ran out about 3 weeks ago. I downloaded from RS.com today and wondered why I didn't have the waiting time, as if still on a premium account. Finally checked this email I got from RS on june 27th and discovered this mess. Turns out they converted my not-used traffic into 21 rapids and thus reactivated my account.
Seems like they'll never delete an account again from what i figured from their lousy attempts to explain the changes...

Kiith wrote: »

So i've been paying month by month up till now. They cant take anymore money from me without my consent, regardless of how much i download before my sub runs out ya?

That's exactly what I was asking myself, too.

Am pretty p!ssed by the changes just like almost everyone here.
Moving to megaupload or such seems the way to go, but need this cleared b4:

Bob_Harris wrote: »

Hotfile's privacy policy doesn't seem to be great compared to Rapidshare's.

jeffk

Maybe its the lack of a lock security system ala rs.

Mr_Cheech

jeffk wrote: »

Maybe its the lack of a lock security system ala rs.

Don't think so. Lock is only good preventing others from changing/using your account I guess. I was thinking about security policy in terms of protecting your data (dl logs and alike) from third parties.

jeffk

Mr_Cheech wrote: »

Don't think so. Lock is only good preventing others from changing/using your account I guess. I was thinking about security policy in terms of protecting your data (dl logs and alike) from third parties.

Privacy Policy

Agreement regarding confidentiality.

IP addresses of users
Our servers can detect the IP address of your browser according to Internet-technology. This IP address is registered by Hotfile servers especially for our internal use (registration of use, optimal downloads use and so on).

E-mail
Our server writes in the register of Hotfile users e-mails only for their registration and calculation. Under no circumstances will Hotfile lease, sell, or provide your personal information to any companies.

Cookies use.
Hotfile uses cookies for the users comfort in order to save the browser settings. Hotfile does not any methods for tracking users (the so-called spy or gif images and so on).

Safe operation with files.
We have taken the appropriate security measures at the servers’ physical location to protect from loss, incorrect usage, or change of information provided to us by the users of the service. Files, saved for delivery can be accessible only to Hotfile representatives or via a link provided to the recipient. All files saved by our service are deleted after a certain time period if you do not delete them yourself.

Credit card information.
All purchases on Hotfile are handled by a third party - Paypal.com in which the transferred information thereof is encrypted. Paypal does not arrange and save numbers or any information from your credit card.

Advertisements.
Advertisements located on our website can be posted by a third party – advertisement firms. These companies can use the information regarding your visits on these or other web pages (your name, address, e-mail, and phone number are excluded) to place an advertisement of wares and services that might be interesting to you.

NOTE.
We can disclose your personal information in case it becomes necessary to defend our juridical rights. Especially if your information is connected with tangible or assumed saboteur actions or poses a potential threat to any person’s physical safety. Disclosure of your information can be lawful or as a result of a legal process.

Mr_Cheech

That's only appropriate. Was just thinking because I thought I heard that RS was involved in some lawsuits regarding this issue and didn't disclose user's data even though it might have helped them.

Or am i totally mistaken here

Mr_Cheech

This is what they say why they cancelled the reward system:

'They feel they had to react to accusations that the rewarding system was promoting/benefitting the spreading of copyrighted material. Not wanting to have the RS users being under this kind of general suspicion, they had no other option than to react like this.'

How kind of them


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grrwuff

...that I used to subscribe to:
-Rapidshare,
-Hotfile and
-Depositfiles.

When RS expires, I'll be subscribing to
-Hotfile and
-Depositfiles,

...UNLESS RS learns something about GREED and apeciation of devoted customers.

Megaupload could possibke be my 3. filehost.

techguy

Thank god for this thread.. I'm joing the confused camp on this one.

I got the first e-mail about the changes then yesterday I got another to say I had been upgraded to rapidmedium from rapidsmall.. WTF?

It appears that rapids are the new "currency" used to keep your account going but the price plans are all over the place.

I've come to the conclusion that they are just trying to confuse customers so they get less download for the same (more?) amount of money..

I've noticed over the past few months that hotfile is probably the next most common service after rapidshare..

IMHO Hotfile.com are the only people who are goin to benefit from this mess..

**Goes to start poll?

Bob_Harris

Deleted User wrote: »

How do you mean?

Rapidshare state they will not track user usage (what they download) and will not disclose this type of information.

Hotfile make no such claim.