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Rapidshare To Be Forced to Shut Down Following Court Defeat

Posted by sudhirmangla July 4, 2008

Rapidshare To Be Forced to Shut Down Following Court Defeat? The music industry in Germany has secured a legal victory over the hugely popular file-hosting service, Rapidshare. According to the rights holders, Rapidshare is going to have to stop its users from downloading infringing music tracks from its servers, or face the prospect of being shut down. Last week we reported on rumors that Rapidshare had, or was about to be, shut down, rumors that now look likely to resurface. The company, one... Read more »

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No more captchas on Rapidshare But a speed limit for the free service

Posted by sudhirmangla July 4, 2008

No more captchas – higher flexibility for premium-users July 02, 2008 By eliminating the captchas we simplified the use of RapidShare’s free services significantly. In addition, free-users can now upload and download bigger files (up to 200 megabyte). Anyhow, to protect RapidShare from congestion caused by automated downloading, we limited the maximum download speed for free‐users to 500 kilobit per second. To compensate for that, they do not have to wait anymore until starting... Read more »

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