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- QsheiK, on 10/02/2008, -4/+69You must wait 45 seconds before you can post in this page. Or, you can buy a premium membership and post right away!
- Sirocco, on 10/01/2008, -1/+59Good luck with that.
- Cybrwolf, on 10/01/2008, -2/+51Hmmm, encryption anyone?
- CarStan, on 10/02/2008, -2/+45if rapidshare dies, there will be 10 others to take its place. Same happened with Napster.
And if all fails, there will always Torrent and for high speed downloads UsenOTTALKBOUT - Rutje, on 10/02/2008, -1/+29And how can you know if something is copyrighted?
- physco827, on 10/02/2008, -3/+28But...............but what about the porn?
- bigteebo, on 10/02/2008, -1/+22Before any judgment is passed, the judge must wait 60 seconds, and count all the kitties on this captcha. Or, you can sign up for a premium conviction...
- inactive, on 10/02/2008, -2/+20There already are others to take its place
DepositFiles
MegaUpload
MegaRotic
Zshare
Sendspace
FileFactory
and that's just the big ones I know of off the top of my head
check out shareminer.com - verifex, on 10/02/2008, -3/+14That kind of ruling is usually the kind that spells the death of a service like this. Unless of course they are making enough money to hire a group of people to police their own service for copyrighted content. Youtube simply waits for a content maker to submit a notice before it takes action on the media. Isn't there a way RapidShare could implement a system like this?
- trollick, on 10/02/2008, -1/+12This comment is copyrighted. Do not read it without my permission.
- Tr33fiddy, on 10/02/2008, -0/+11'fraid not. FTA:
"Germany lacks the "safe harbor" provisions afforded to US companies, which are exempted from liability for infringing material that their users place on servers or make accessible through their networks if they take it offline once notified of its infringing nature." - antonio97b, on 10/02/2008, -1/+12Wait... It's happy hour!
- zbeast, on 10/02/2008, -1/+10The right thing is just to block access to Germany and not worry about it.
- Cherubim, on 10/02/2008, -2/+11It's pretty hard to police content on a hosting site like Rapidshare. Not practical at all.
- theaceoffire, on 10/02/2008, -1/+9Doesn't matter for me, Comcast has dropped Usenet.
- M4tchstickM4n, on 10/02/2008, -1/+9"a business model that doesn't use common methods of prevention cannot claim the protection of the law,"
Does that mean that if I get run over by a speeding M6, I can prosecute BMW, because they failed to prevent the driver from speeding? - pentalive, on 10/02/2008, -0/+8In San Francisco there are public staircases, One goes up from Levi Plaza to Coit tower. If I took a picture of that staircase, zipped it and uploaded it under the title "Stairway to heaven" would I be violating copyright?
You can't go by names, You can't go by hashes. The only way to know a work is copyright violating is if the owner of the copyright tells you. - savocado, on 10/02/2008, -2/+9the owner of the material will complain
- cquinnd, on 10/02/2008, -0/+7China? Mainland or Taiwan?
Mainland I don't see happening, with how paranoid they are now with Net content going thru their state controlled routers. - diabolicedict, on 10/02/2008, -2/+8If you are going to compress-encrypt something, use rar not zip. The former has a can compress files better and pretty solid encryption.
- qpingu, on 10/02/2008, -2/+8Selling RS premium account: cheap, cheap, cheap!
- inactive, on 10/02/2008, -1/+7sells?
- juzsp, on 10/02/2008, -1/+7I for one really don't want to lose Rapidshare. Yes, yes, i know there are hundreds of other uploading websites but lets face it, Rapidshare is by far the most popular! the last thing i want to do is buy 10 different premium accounts to get my downloading fix as ex-rapidsharers scatter to any number of other hosts!
- Jenadae, on 10/02/2008, -1/+7zupload.com
rapidupload.com
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snapdrive.net
fileul.com
rogepost.com
sendspace.com
speedyshare.com
4shared.com
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files.to
yourfilelink.com
zshare.net
box.net
yousendit.com
divshare.com
fileupyours.com
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megaupload.com
spread-it.com
mediafire.com
fileden.com
badongo.com
filefactory.com
momupload.com
savefile.com
bigupload.com
filecrunch.com
filesend.net - Flytrap, on 10/02/2008, -2/+7Thats rubbish!
Rapidshare does not sell anything. They just sell bandwidth. The files uploaded to Rapidshare, pirated or not are uploaded for free and are available for free download, only to those people whome the uploader had sent the link to. There is no way of searching Rapidshare for pirated content - so in that way it makes for a very inefficient platform for mass distribution of pirated content.
Enter discussion forums, bulletin boards and a more recent phenomenon, Rapidshare link lists
In practice, and in its design, Rapidshare et al are designed for personal distribution of large files. Files that typically cannot be emailed (ever tried to email a 100MB presentation or branding proposal). Services like Rapidshare promise privacy because there is not way of searching and downloading files that somebody uploaded without that person having directly or indirectly passed on the direct link to the download file. However, discussion forums, bulletin boards etc. have increasingly provided more efficient mechanisms of distributing the download link to a larger group of people. So instead of Rapidshare links being passed on in private from person to person, they are now being posted on chat forums and being mirrored over and over again to different forums and boards (creating a mushroom effect). This is what people mean when they make comparisons to torrents... the chat forums do not host the downloads, individuals post the links as part of their chats. Perhaps the tipping point for Rapidshare has been the emergence of search engines that search for Rapidshare links in public chat rooms and bulletin boards (using the context that surrounds the post to generate the search keywords). What this has done is it has cutapulted services like Rapidshare into a realm that they had worked so hard to stay out of... i.e. that of being mass file distribution platforms. - mattearle, on 10/02/2008, -3/+8Yea, soon something like RapidShare will open in China and it will be completely over for the U.S. copyright holders. As an end user (pirate), I have been downloading movies for more than ten years, just surfing from one source to another as they go down, new and better sources are always created.
The RIAA/MPAA and their business model are taking a slow beating that will eventually be ended by one really hard blow from which they cannot get up. - thinkdifferent, on 10/02/2008, -0/+5Copyright isn't some mythical thing that needs to be done. Everything created automatically has a copyright by the creator of that work. However you can also register a copyright. The issue here is one in which the copyright holder wasn't the one to put the work there or didn't have express permission to do so (ie a right to copy).
- inactive, on 10/02/2008, -0/+5How about typing rapidshare alternatives into google?
- theclaw1, on 10/02/2008, -1/+6The first rule is you do not talk about fight club.
- trollick, on 10/02/2008, -0/+5I'm reporting you to authorities for reading my copyrighted comment without permission.
- knowmonger, on 10/02/2008, -0/+5lol ^_^
- xtmno3, on 10/02/2008, -0/+4QShare. They don't even have waiting periods to download, just limits on bandwidth.
http://s1.qshare.com/ - NJPENSO, on 10/02/2008, -2/+6USENET
FIGHT CLUB RULES GUYS - inactive, on 10/02/2008, -1/+5Just google any album name followed by 'rar' and you'll find it on rapidshare, zshare, mediafire etc within a few clicks.
- MightyLime, on 10/02/2008, -1/+5*just waits 45 seconds*
- 2ndEdition, on 10/02/2008, -1/+5simply twiddling the bits won't do anything. you have to gank the goose.
then the courts will have their hands full. - BananaGrabber, on 10/02/2008, -1/+5rapidshare and other uploading services pretty much replaced my need of p2p programs and torrents. Hope this doesn't pass through.
- Supergaxx, on 10/02/2008, -1/+5last bastion?
what about megaupload? depositfiles? ifileit? badongo? megarotic? zshare?
rapidshare is just the most popular and well known, people will just move to the others. - SniperZero, on 10/02/2008, -1/+5it is relevant. If the lockers have no locks and are free to use by anyone. Its just the same anyone can get the file or get whats in the locker. With files it creates a unique url where as in real life people can just throw the ***** out of your locker and use it. So its the same thing.
- loneraven, on 10/02/2008, -1/+5Yea... I'm surprised it's not more popular.
It is gaining steam though, and $25 for 6 months unlimited downloading isn't too shabby. - knowmonger, on 10/02/2008, -1/+5Did I hear something real crazy ?
- shredswithpiks, on 10/02/2008, -2/+6lurkmoar
- SamOut, on 10/02/2008, -0/+3Yes..I mean no. I don't know.
- toasterwaffle, on 10/02/2008, -0/+3Posting key makes it pointless?
- mattearle, on 10/02/2008, -0/+3megashares is actually way better and more convenient as you only need to download one, usually unrarred file.
- Meocross, on 10/02/2008, -1/+4You just said it all seriously.
- Han5010, on 10/03/2008, -0/+3No need to publicly post the key. There are private forums where the keys and urls can be traded. This is already very common. Split RAR files w/ password aren't subject to inspection by RS admins.
- southeastbeast, on 10/02/2008, -1/+4I see what you did there....
- Crazymaniacc, on 10/02/2008, -1/+4RapidShare will never go down, they might have to change the location of the server, but they will never stop.
- philz, on 10/02/2008, -0/+3They are based in Switzerland.
http://rapidshare.com/imprint.html
RapidShare AG | Gewerbestrasse 6 | CH-6330 Cham | Schweiz -
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