This might be the end to rapidshare as we know it. They got too big and now "the man" has to cut them down to size. Rapidshare was the victim of it's own success. When your the king of the hill, the wrong people will notice you. The pirate bay use to be the king of the hill, but then they got noticed.

Originally posted by jony218:

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This might be the end to rapidshare as we know it. They got too big and now "the man" has to cut them down to size. Rapidshare was the victim of it's own success. When your the king of the hill, the wrong people will notice you. The pirate bay use to be the king of the hill, but then they got noticed.

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And The Pirate Bay is still the king.

Just registered to take a look at

No biggie to me as I never share anything anyhow. And as for downloading stuff from this and other sites like it, it's a pain, Thanks to people posting obscene number of sperate links that you must individually click on and download in order to retrieve an entire file. NO thanks! I'm content to wait for single links or better yet, for the files to appear in a torrent search. So do what you can rapidshare, but if you are unable to beat your leagl wrap, then oh well. Won't be much of a tragedy here.

Originally posted by 5fdpfan:

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No biggie to me as I never share anything anyhow. And as for downloading stuff from this and other sites like it, it's a pain, Thanks to people posting obscene number of sperate links that you must individually click on and download in order to retrieve an entire file. NO thanks! I'm content to wait for single links or better yet, for the files to appear in a torrent search. So do what you can rapidshare, but if you are unable to beat your leagl wrap, then oh well. Won't be much of a tragedy here.

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There are free tools called download managers. Flashget being one of them. You select all of the links on a page. Hit Ctrl-C and they are all automatically populated for download. There is no reason to individualy download every link one at a time.

The end of RS would be a pretty big hit. There are too many services out there. Netload, hotfile, megaupload, megashares, etc...the list goes on. Even with all of these alternatives, RS has the largest user base, really making it easy to obtain anything (if something is hosted by one person on megashares, you can bet the ranch that there are numerous other mirrors on RS - but it doesn't work the other way). It would be interesting to see who surfaces as the next big hoster, but it will take some time after the dust settles. People on warez will be scrambling to only one of the alternatives, as it's pretty ridiculous to have multiple subscriptions.

I have an RS subscription, but it primarily serves as a means to store my own data that I share with members on other forums. And I share personal files with friends and family from time to time. I hope that RS at least stays alive for that purpose alone. Unfortunately, if the majority of people subscribing to their service share warez, they stand to lose a huge portion of their user base and sales, and I doubt they will survive with whoever stays on.

Thanks for those suggestions.