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Rapidshare is dead Anonymous
"As of 19 January 2008 16:00 GMT, Rapidshare's servers appear to be offline. There are rumors that Rapidshare has been shut down by the authorities after a court order, however, court records do not reveal any issued Rapidshare court order as of yet. Rapidshare technician Steven Gircham has commented on this issue - "There are rumors concerning attacks made on the Rapidshare.com servers. There are also rumors that Rapidshare has been shut down by a court order. These rumors are false. We would like to apologize to our users and inform them that no data has been lost. There have been some hardware issues as a result of high bandwidth and server overload. We are doing our very best to resolve the hardware issues, and users should expect uptime by midnight tonight (GMT)"
Furthermore, Rapidshare was forced to use a new anti-piracy tool which detects filenames, also within archives, and compares them to warez release announcement sites, torrent listings and eDonkey links. If the filenames match, the tool will automatically delete them. This tool will run for the next five hours to delete everything possible. Premium and Collector's accounts will not be lost, but no one will use them after nearly everything will be deleted (there are only less than 2% legal files hosted on the RapidShare servers). "
>> Anonymous
The Germany society for musical performing and mechanical reproduction rights GEMA has obtained temporary injunctions from the District Court in Cologne against the operator of data exchange services RapidShare.de and RapidShare.com.

The so-called "sharehosters” services operate in a similar way, allowing users to upload content on virtual storage space, thus making the respective content publicly available. They are considered to have used copyrighted works of GEMA members "in an unlawful fashion".

GEMA asked from RapidShare’s operator to reveal the number of copyrighted files of GEMA artists presently stored without license. According to GEMA spokesman Hans-Herwig Geyer, RapidShare.de has boasted of having some 15 million files available to its users. RapidShare has claimed to have no control or knowledge of the content uploaded by the users considering it had no legal responsibility.

Through its injunction the District Court in Cologne has now however made it clear to the company that the fact that the users and not the operator of the services were the ones that uploaded the content onto the sites did not, from a legal point of view, lessen the operator's liability for copyright infringements occurred within the context of the services.

http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number5.2/rapidshare
>> Anonymous
ON TO THE NEXT FILESHARING SITE!
>> Anonymous
>>761109
I like how a lot of people are just simply saying that, but seriously, do you realize how much shit we just lost?

I guess it was inevitable and as shitty as RS was, it was something.
>> Anonymous
>>761106
Confirmed to not to be true
>> Graus !!ICb+JmdEVKn
As of 19 January 2008 16:00 GMT, Rapidshare’s servers appear to be offline. There are rumors that Rapidshare has been shut down by the authorities after a court order, however, court records do not reveal any issued Rapidshare court order as of yet. Rapidshare technician Steven Gircham has commented on this issue - “There are rumors concerning attacks made on the Rapidshare.com servers. There are also rumors that Rapidshare has been shut down by a court order. These rumors are false. We would like to apologize to our users and inform them that no data has been lost. There have been some hardware issues as a result of high bandwidth and server overload. We are doing our very best to resolve the hardware issues, and users should expect uptime by midnight tonight (GMT)”
>> Anonymous
>>761116
Isn't it just warez? Are they deleting hentai too?
>> Anonymous
>>761135
If they truly are deleting things, I'd think a lot of hentai would slip by ... music could be another story though.

I hope all these dumb rumors are just fake it and just turns out to be some downtime or something.
>> Anonymous
>>761135
Hentai doesn't get enough release coverage or complaints for them to mass-delete the stuff.
>> noko
they aren't deleting. Problem with Level 3 Server.
>> Anonymous
BTW, those of you interested - RS is back up.
>> sage
>>761148
no it's not, at least it's not loading here right now
>> Anonymous
>>761176
try rapidshare.de
>> Anonymous
RAPIDSHARE IS BACK
>> Anonymous
Rumors are fun. Mass rapidshare file deletions not happening. Site was back up before this topic started.
>> Anonymous
rapid share failure.
>> Anonymous
I hope it is dead I could never get any thing off there, and even when I did I ether couldn't use it or it had nothing in the file.
>> Anonymous
>>761410
you confuse me.

if it dies, most of other filehosting sites could very well follow suit.
>> Anonymous
The key word is could. Lets hope not.
>> Anonymous
Remember when <insert p2p program/torrent tracker/whatever other illegal file distribution method> went offline? Remember how shocking that news was? Remember how it didn't make a bit of fucking difference a month later when even more had cropped up to take its place?

Even if this is true, and this magical script wipes out illegal content, I doubt it'll hit most hentai. It's not hard to get copyright infringing files deleted from filesharing sites, and there's a reason most hentai goes untouched.

And in the unlikely event rapidshare or even all filehosting sites go down, something else will crop up. Something always does. You can't shut down the collective network of every person's computer in the world.
>> Anonymous
>>761528
supernova lol
>> Anonymous
Site is not dead.

Simple temporary solution block access to files from Germany.

Temporary injunction. Will be appealed to a higher court.

End of filesharing sites. I think not !

It was not that long ago that many thought sharing music on the net would be banned.
>> Anonymous
Even if this were true, the serious illegal communities code their fucking links.

Fail.
>> Anonymous
as much as i download from rapidshit, i hope it fucking dies. i hope every one of those cuntbags who tells people to spend ten bucks on a goddamned premium account gets fucked out of their money.

hope you lose your ten bux, you goddamned whores.
>> DEXTER SECRET'S
>>761714
sadly people like us that pay for rapidshare, its just really pocket change ;s, wed rather spend 60 dollars on 10-20 games thatn buying a single one ;/
>> Anonymous
LOLZ for epic stupidity.
>> Anonymous
as much as i download from rapidshit, i hope it fucking dies. i hope every one of those cuntbags who tells people to spend ten bucks on a goddamned premium account gets fucked out of their money.

hope you lose your ten bux, you goddamned whores.
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Man what a rude guy.
Well I did pay for a premium account and I don't regret it. I downloaded so much that it is totaly worth the 10 bucks.
Besides I paid for a single month, and put some rs link from stuff I uploaded on my account on 4chan when people asked for source of something.
And I had enough point from people downloading on those links to pay tje last 4 months with those point.
So yeah... I don't know if you are jalous or just stupid, but there are always people like you that can't understand other.
>> Anonymous
>>761719
WHY DO PEOPLE EVEN GO TO SITES THAT NEED PREMIUM WHEN THEY CAN GO TO OTHER FILE SHARING SITES WHO'
S SERVICES THAT ARE COMPLETELY FREE?!? Cruise control off
>> Tales of and Star ocean Anonymous
Its back you stupid fag
>> Anonymous
>>761733
Because of their zones or where they live. Some services do not work well for some like it does for others. And the premium is NOT A NEED. It's not something like Megaupload's toolbar which they force you to get. It's an option for better service. It's how business works.
>> Anonymous
And the official version, in amongst the random paranoia?

>20. January 2008 - Problems accessing RapidShare

>Unfortunately, starting at 5 pm CET, one of our carriers experienced a severe technical problem with their hardware, causing a loss of 50 gigabit of bandwidth. Therefore RapidShare was unavailable for several hours. We already have taken steps to avoid this particular problem in the future.


Dun DUN DUNNNNN <dramatic reverb>
>> Anonymous
>>761738
facepalm.jpg

YOU DO NOT NEED TO EVER DOWNLOAD THE TOOLBAR.

Also, I wish rapidshare would die. Then everybody would shift to something better. Truth be told, I don't care about dl'ers out of America, as long as I get my porn. This is callous, but true.

MOVE TO MEDIAFIRE OR BADONGO GODDAMNIT.
>> Anonymous
>I don't care about dl'ers out of America
Uploaders also don't care about you it seems.
>> Anonymous
>>761796
Ahem, FUCK YOU, SIR. I payed for my premium account and have gotten maybe 40 gigs of content out of it. And you know what? I've uploaded enough that I haven't had to pay for an extension in a year. Suck a dick and die on it.
>> Anonymous
Honestly, if Rapidshare dies then yes, everyone will just move on to Megaupload/Megarotic etc. Just like how they shut down Napster but everyone switched to Kazaa etc.

Even if they implemented that (bullshit and totally fake) filter, it'd leave all the /d/ material because it isn't posted on warez sites or has a slight file name change. Just leave the 4chan image number as the file name and it's safe since the name is incomprehensible. Name the folder something similar (yet different enough) and you're safe. It' just like slipping stuff past the YouTube filters. Come on anon, think!
>> Anonymous
>>762167
Fuckin I, I paid for a year's premium and it's been the best internet investment I ever made. Done more pirating in a year than in the past five years of shitty torrents. Fuck everything else, rapidshare is the tits. Too bad it expired yesterday. :(
>> Anonymous
>>761796

Badongo is whores, STFU. They fucking sell your info to spammers and telemarketers. So you just have fun with that, fuckface. I don't want any part of their faggotry.
>> Anonymous
>>762267

I tend to avoid services with the word "dong" in them just on principle. Any way you slice it, "badongo" looks like "evian" to my word parser eyes.
>> Anonymous
Hey everyone.
This is /d/. Go elsewhere to chat and post some pics.

Sage
>> Anonymous
hmmmm, this is all a load of bollocks, I just downloaded a load from the servers, please ignore message above