Another rapidshare rant

mattyj1085 · 12 Mar 2009 at 17:25

So, the limit is now 2.66gb or something a day. A week ago i was converting my rapidshare points into usage. For 150 points you got 5gb. I have just converted some points i have left and for 150 i got about 400mb.

What the hell is going on with this company?

stoofa · 12 Mar 2009 at 17:34

They are attempting to make money - much like many company's out there.

For $54.99 (£39.69) you can have a more or less unlimited account for a year.
That's 76p/week or aorund the 10p/day mark.

Surely this is the way forward?

Greenlizard0 · 12 Mar 2009 at 17:36

Why do people convert certain things into cost/day? It's a scale I've never really understood.

reflux · 12 Mar 2009 at 17:36

I gave them another 10 euros and this gay limit disappeared. It's very unclear how it works and their customer support monkeys were not very helpful either.

blix · 12 Mar 2009 at 17:47

I'd love to know what percentage of Rapidshare's downloads are of legal content.

It's pretty odd really that a company can legally make money solely out of hosting porn/warez/TV shows.

G-MAN2004 · 12 Mar 2009 at 17:51

Greenlizard0 said:
Why do people convert certain things into cost/day? It's a scale I've never really understood.

To make it seem more appealing, at a guess.

Viper² · 12 Mar 2009 at 17:52

blix said:
I'd love to know what percentage of Rapidshare's downloads are of legal content.

1%

sanaxe1 · 12 Mar 2009 at 17:53

Greenlizard0 said:
Why do people convert certain things into cost/day? It's a scale I've never really understood.

To put things in to perspective.

eXor · 12 Mar 2009 at 17:54

blix said:
I'd love to know what percentage of Rapidshare's downloads are of legal content.

There's only one way to find out....

benneh · 12 Mar 2009 at 17:59

Greenlizard0 said:
Why do people convert certain things into cost/day? It's a scale I've never really understood.

It's more about bandwidth per day, and the drastic decrease in bandwidth per day in relation to cost. Rapidshare unfortunately seem to have taken on a measure of success and hiked prices in a dastardly manner, by reducing the service. Seems a bit silly to me though, because the majority of their business will be porn/pirated goodies and basic file transfer, and the market must react so quickly (as is the case now, most of the users of the rapidshare forums I have been using for a year or so are now shifting to other companies due to the cost and bandwidth caps). Surely they must be shooting themselves in the foot.

Edinho · 12 Mar 2009 at 18:36

blix said:
I'd love to know what percentage of Rapidshare's downloads are of legal content.

It's pretty odd really that a company can legally make money solely out of hosting porn/warez/TV shows.

Its great for a 2nd backup for important data too, photos, docs.

LukeTW · 12 Mar 2009 at 18:37

Rapidshare sucks more every day

AJUK · 12 Mar 2009 at 18:41

Stop downloading porn!

mattyfez · 12 Mar 2009 at 19:17

I have never understood the point of rapidshare, and I dont feel im missing anything?

What is the point of it, what makes people pay for it?

Sinque · 12 Mar 2009 at 19:20

mattyfez said:
I have never understood the point of rapidshare, and I dont feel im missing anything?

What is the point of it, what makes people pay for it?

There are serious amounts of illegal content on there, it's just finding it.

Tombo · 12 Mar 2009 at 19:21

It's a service, people want the service, what's to get?

mattyj1085 · 12 Mar 2009 at 19:31

Sinque said:
There are serious amounts of illegal content on there, it's just finding it.

http://rapidshare-search-engine.com/

That was hard! (link is just a search)

Ill be moving to megaupload soon

Sinque · 12 Mar 2009 at 19:35

mattyj1085 said:
http://rapidshare-search-engine.com/

That was hard! (link is just a search)

Ill be moving to megaupload soon

Right? I didn't say it was hard to find it. Thanks for being a sarcastic ponce though.

mattyj1085 · 12 Mar 2009 at 19:36

Sinque said:
Right? I didn't say it was hard to find it. Thanks for being a sarcastic ponce though.

sorry chief, was just pointing out the obvious. 'rapidshare search'

asim18 · 12 Mar 2009 at 19:37

Never had a problem with Rapidshare. Coming into my 8th month of a 1 year account.

Edit: actually only once, for about 2 hours during peak time one day; the speed was a little slow.