Rapidshare now give unlimited Traffic?

[Invisian]

good
it tried all of them free
best one for me is FS and MU, remember as a free user.

[Lifetalk]

All the new hosts are crappy. Look at them - they don't and they never will have the level of infrastructure that Rapidshare has. Rapidshare has survived the test of time - that is something none of these new hosts will survive.

Look at hotfile. Right before your eyes it went up and came crashing down. The hosts you now put your trust in so much (fileserve, filesonic, etc etc) are headed along the same route. They will go down. It is only a matter of time. When they're down - the only strong host still standing will be Rapidshare.

Do you guys seriously think Rapidshare ever depended on you cashwhores for its survival? If that was the case, Rapidshare would have gone Hotfile's route with a serious and a rapid decline in usage. Yet, that is not the case. Rapidshare is still strong, still innovating, still online. And it will stay that way. Rapidshare does not depend on warez uploaders for their survival. And if you looked at their news page, you'd know they've progressed much more now than they would have back when they had cashwhores uploading to them.

Having said that, disagree with me all you want. The truth, unfortunately, is more than obvious to anyone who isn't crazy enough to just conclude based on statistical numbers. Time, (un)fortunately, will show you which filehost is the strongest out there.

[okone]

+1 lifetalk.

I couldn't have put it better myself.

[Invisian]

Nobody can say that Rapidshare is worst
Rapidshare will be the Godfather of hosting
Before .com there was rapidshare.de
thats how it all started for them.
I don't think there were any comptitiors against them because they started this biz as google started search engines...etc.

[Ivan]

I think that's proof that their customer base has decreased so much that they can now afford to provide unlimited bandwidth as they once used to a long time ago

^this.

Other filehosts should take this as lesson. Don't fuck with your affilates.

Do you guys seriously think Rapidshare ever depended on you cashwhores for its survival? If that was the case, Rapidshare would have gone Hotfile's route with a serious and a rapid decline in usage. Yet, that is not the case. Rapidshare is still strong, still innovating, still online. And it will stay that way. Rapidshare does not depend on warez uploaders for their survival. And if you looked at their news page, you'd know they've progressed much more now than they would have back when they had cashwhores uploading to them.

I wouldn't call losing 75% of userbase in one year a "progress"...

[cvrle77]

lol at lifetalk reasoning.... hilarious

You really believe at what you said? That ANY file-host isn't dependant on warez?
What do you think, what creates traffic and downloads on any file-host? Text files? Lyric?
What exactly is there to be shared, that can produce lots of traffic, sales, money, and it is legal at the same time? Name few things...ok, name one.

Don't be funny, Rapidshare became popular thanks to warez, and it will remain, because of that. But they are falling down slowly, because habit left. They were number one for 4-5 years. Lots of people bought long time accounts, and use them slowly. That is why rapids are invented. To use them slowly. To prevent unlimited downloading. Now, when they emptied their database, and most of their servers cost more to be turned on, than produce capital, they are attracting users back again with unlimited download. It is all part of the strategy, game for clevers. Hats off, they took shitload of money, thanks to warez. But ever since majority of warez uploaders abandoned them since they can't even keep their account, because they are terminating them, nothing left for uploaders at all.
That's why they kept all files I uploaded, on their servers, to produce more sales, while I got 16 accounts terminated.

[okone]

Like lifetalk said, in the longrun RS will be the only one left standing. All the other hosts that pay out their arses to retain users will have fallen pray to some form of litagation from the US. RS have actually been to court and won, on various occasions.

Its only a matter of time before Fileserve and Filesonic go the way of Hotfile. And when that happens and you're all complaining, I will be enjoying my RS account.

[Sp32]

I remember when Rapidshare had no competitors.

[cvrle77]

@ okone, megaupload and mediafire will be long after Rapidshare dies....
You see, uploaders are the one who dictate, which file-host will live, and which will die, not downloaders. (and DMCA police too )

No uploaders-no files, no files-no traffic, no traffic-no moneyz....

[okone]

First of all, the reason MediaFire will survive is because they have nvr rly been a popular choice for Warez.

Secondly, you can't say for certian what the the future holds for Megaupload as they are one of the sites that will loose their domain first if the new measures are brought through in the US.

And thirdly, uploaders clearly don't dictate which host lives because as we have been saying (quite a few times in this thread), people still buy accounts there. I know this because I run a site where RS links are mandatory and people praise us for using them. If downloaders still pay for accounts, it won't die anytime soon, and RapidShare are in no shortage of customers.