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October 20, 2007
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RapidShare is a German owned One-click hosting site that operates from Switzerland and is financed by the subscriptions of paying users Rapidshare Lez.
It operates as both a pay and free service (with limitations), allowing any user to upload files of up to 100 MB Rapidshare Lez. The user is then supplied with a unique download URL, which locates the file and enables anyone with whom the uploader shares it to download the file Rapidshare Lez. Non-premium users are required to wait a time period after each download depending on the size of the last downloaded file) Rapidshare Lez. Their homepage states they have 170 gigabit/s of Internet connectivity and 4 petabytes of storage for users Rapidshare Lez. Registration and payment allow benefits such as download of several files simultaneously, queue-skipping, and the facility to interrupt and re-start downloads Rapidshare Lez. No user is allowed to search the server for content; all files have to be downloaded by following a given URL Rapidshare Lez.
On October 19, 2006, RapidShare announced that “Unfortunately all drives of RapidShare Rapidshare Lez.de are full right now” Rapidshare Lez. A new website, RapidShare Rapidshare Lez.com has been made in an attempt to transfer usage from RapidShare Rapidshare Lez.de to RapidShare Rapidshare Lez.com Rapidshare Lez.
[citation needed] Premium accounts for RapidShare Rapidshare Lez.de were not lost as a code could be used to transfer the account between servers Rapidshare Lez. However, this code was only good for as long as the account did not expire, and the promotion did not finish Rapidshare Lez. It is not possible, however, to use a RapidShare Rapidshare Lez.com account on the German site Rapidshare Lez. Despite the one-way compatibility with paid accounts, both sites claim to be entirely different organisations and entities Rapidshare Lez. The new site originally did not impose any download limits, but on October 27, the “Happy Hours” came to an end, bringing back the download limits Rapidshare Lez. The file size limit was also reduced from 300 MB to its current 100 MB Rapidshare Lez.
Issues
Due to certain ISP”s usage of proxy servers many people are unable to access files hosted on RapidShare as they will be using one proxy server and RapidShare limits download slots for everyone using that proxy server as if it were one person Rapidshare Lez. RapidShare”s policy is to encourage those behind proxy servers to purchase premium accounts Rapidshare Lez.
Some ISPs also intentionally block sharing sites like RapidShare to make better use of bandwidth Rapidshare Lez. Every premium account is limited to a maximum of 25 GB (25 Rapidshare Lez.000 Rapidshare Lez.000 Rapidshare Lez.000 bytes) within a five day period Rapidshare Lez. Rapidshare Lez.
Non-paying users are required to wait more than two minutes before any download becomes available Rapidshare Lez. CAPTCHA validation required Rapidshare Lez. Non-paying users are also required to wait two minutes for every megabyte of data downloaded before they can download again, up to 208 minutes (100 MB) Rapidshare Lez.
Paying accounts for RapidShare Rapidshare Lez.de and RapidShare Rapidshare Lez.com are separate and not interchangeable Rapidshare Lez.
On January 19, news broke that German collections agency GEMA had claimed to have won a temporary injunction against both RapidShare Rapidshare Lez.de and RapidShare Rapidshare Lez.com Rapidshare Lez. “The latter is said to have used copyright protected works of GEMA members in an unlawful fashion,” Rapidshare Lez. To date RapidShare has claimed not to have any knowledge of the content uploaded by the users and of not being in a position to control the content Rapidshare Lez. Through its injunctions the District Court in Cologne had now however made it clear to the company that the fact that it was the users and not the operator of the services that uploaded the content onto the sites did not, from a legal point of view, lessen the operator’s liability for copyright infringements that occurred within the context of the services, the spokesman added Rapidshare Lez.
Both RapidShare Rapidshare Lez.de and RapidShare Rapidshare Lez.com sites are currently still operating and the consequences, if any, of the claimed injunction have yet to be seen Rapidshare Lez. So far they have not been sued Rapidshare Lez.
