Note: replacing megaupload links with rapidshare links

[BlockMan]

Just a quick note to the people that are replacing Fiona Cooper megaupload links with rapidshare links.

http://www.geek.com/articles/news/rapidshare-introduces-30kbs-free-account-speed-cap-disables-resume-20120217/

Big thanks to all FC uploaders

[trugoythewhitedove]

Just a quick note to the people that are replacing Fiona Cooper megaupload links with rapidshare links.

http://www.geek.com/articles/news/rapidshare-introduces-30kbs-free-account-speed-cap-disables-resume-20120217/

Big thanks to all FC uploaders

Interesting information, cheers. I am currently 2 1/2 hours into downloading a 150 MB file from rapidshare, with no end in site. We are running out of usable options.

[hos]

it's about a free account. if you want to have speed, buy for the service. people who have paid should have a benefit.. imho nothing wrong with that, it's quite logic.

btw, please use existing threads. we already have one for RS:
http://www.vintage-erotica-forum.com/showthread.php?t=129658

[trugoythewhitedove]

it's about a free account. if you want to have speed, buy for the service. people who have paid should have a benefit.. imho nothing wrong with that, it's quite logic.

btw, please use existing threads. we already have one for RS:
http://www.vintage-erotica-forum.com/showthread.php?t=129658

But if people buy an account - in order to give things away for free - surely it is relevant to tell said people that they are wasting their own money ?

[monogroover]

I did cancel a download on Thursday because it appeared to have stalled, so mystery solved. Even when I managed to restart it - after the servers were convinced that I wasn't attempting to run a simultaneous download - it stalled for real half an hour later.

Whether there's anything "wrong" with it isn't the point. Either way, the service has been substantially degraded for free users and it has become a much less attractive proposition for sharing videos here.

[BlockMan]

it's about a free account. if you want to have speed, buy for the service. people who have paid should have a benefit.. imho nothing wrong with that, it's quite logic.

btw, please use existing threads. we already have one for RS:
http://www.vintage-erotica-forum.com/showthread.php?t=129658

This post was moved by a mod so more people get to see it..

as a free user on rapidshare i havnt managed 2 download a file yet it times out after
about a hour or so..

[Mr. Gussett]

it's about a free account. if you want to have speed, buy for the service. people who have paid should have a benefit.. imho nothing wrong with that, it's quite logic.

btw, please use existing threads. we already have one for RS:
http://www.vintage-erotica-forum.com/showthread.php?t=129658

I agree - always have. In the main, the vast majority of hosts severely limit the ability of people to download as a free user. Don't be surprised by it - it's pretty obvious. I've been an RS member for years and haven't paid for at least 3 - I stored enough 'rapids' years ago (or whatever they call them) to keep me going for free since then. I pay for one other host and MyDownloader. I get most of wehat I need that way. Those who think everything in life is (and should be) free are frankly deluding themselves.....

[Norbert84]

Here's an official statement by Rapidshare:

"As some of you have noticed already, we have reduced download speeds for free users (currently about 30 kb/s). We have been forced to implement this measure as a result of significantly increased abuse statistics after recent external events.
We are aware that this restriction also affects the legitimate use of RapidShare. Please be assured that we will optimize our procedures as soon as possible in order to avoid such collateral damage."

Whatever they mean by "legitimate use of RapidShare"....

[L0rdi]

My main concern for now is uploading: is there some filesize limit set, after which you get cut off if free user? Any experiences?

[rotobott]

My main concern for now is uploading: is there some filesize limit set, after which you get cut off if free user? Any experiences?

2GB at the moment, but you would be a patient and optimistic kind of guy to try and download that as a free user :D

[L0rdi]

2GB at the moment, but you would be a patient and optimistic kind of guy to try and download that as a free user :D

All it takes is some more time. We must be more Zen with our porn these days;)

[mordred888]

They really seem to be getting , shooting themselves in the foot . down to a fine art.

[hos]

This post was moved by a mod so more people get to see it..

lol. even if that's the case, it doesn't make much sense, doesn't it?

or does a new thread titled "rapidshare" raise more attention than an older thread called "rapidshare", if it's bumped with a new post? ;)

[stralis440]

Not sticking up for RS as it`s screwed me over with the speed cap, but it`s just their way of telling the pirates to sod off. They know that no-one will upload the material they don`t want because no-one will download it at the capped speed. They feel anyone legit, will pay for the premium service (and it is good for premium users). Once the traffic dies down because of it, I`m sure the cap will be raised/lifted. Not so much shooting themselves in the foot, but looking after their paying customers.

[Flyer10]

Not sticking up for RS as it`s screwed me over with the speed cap, but it`s just their way of telling the pirates to sod off. They know that no-one will upload the material they don`t want because no-one will download it at the capped speed. They feel anyone legit, will pay for the premium service (and it is good for premium users). Once the traffic dies down because of it, I`m sure the cap will be raised/lifted. Not so much shooting themselves in the foot, but looking after their paying customers.

Its got nothing to do with that Megaupload was far better and was taking away use of RS, now they are out of the was RS can screw people again.

I just tried to download a film, a week ago it would have taken 4 mins, now it say 4 hours left. People just wont bother downloading which defeats the point of uploading anything.

[spitalhouse]

it's about a free account. if you want to have speed, buy for the service. people who have paid should have a benefit.. imho nothing wrong with that, it's quite logic.

btw, please use existing threads. we already have one for RS:
http://www.vintage-erotica-forum.com/showthread.php?t=129658

I don't see this as an argument concerning the rights and wrongs of whether RS should be imposing stricter download quotas for free users. What I object to is the fact that they've done it in what appears to be a sneaky and underhand way.

If RS want to impose speed and traffic limits for free users that's fine, but they should at least be upfront regarding what free users can expect by giving some indication of the average speeds and the length of time downloads are likely to take under normal conditions. But won't do that, will they? Not because it's technically not possible but because they would no longer be able to deliberately hamper downloads by varying the transfer rates or suspending downloads altogether.

This smacks of nothing more than cynical manipulation on the part of RS which leaves me with somewhat of a nasty taste in my mouth.

Regards.

[Bitrudeuk]

I used to love rapid$hare as a free user until a couple of days ago with the introduction of the speed limit. They have been fairly good about it by saying because of the increase of traffic they are having issues... so they cap the free users, which is fair, after all, paying customers should expect a premium service! They have done this in the past whilst they increase their server capacity. I hope that they will do just that and we will see an increase in free user speed again shortly?

On the downside, I seem to be getting a lot more write failures with the downloads now, which is annoying as they tend to happen just towards the end of the file completing. I would prefer they had a faster speed and maybe go back to a wait time between downloads? If anything that would be more stable as you wouldn't lose connection as much and potentially have to restart your download! All annoying and time consuming!

[just_watchin']

And i thought i have a speed problem with my new dlan set. Good to know that its infact rapidshare. Maybe i should go premium again

[Threadbanger]

This speedcap is doing my head in, I too thought it was my ISP at first. After the MU debacle I started re-ULing my old posts to Mediafire and then switched to RS 'cos I thought it might stand a slightly better chance of long-term survival. But now I'm getting people telling me that they can't DL some of my recent RS posts on VEF due to the speedcap (I checked my RS account and there have been quite a few downloads, so I don't know how much of a problem this is).
So, that made me wonder if it is possible to upload files to more than one filehost at a time? A quick look on Google finds things like Fileducky, File&Imageuploader and Mirrorcreator which purport to provide this service. But I don't seem to recall ever having seen anyone on these help threads recommending or discussing such services and I have found the stuff on these help threads to be pretty useful and sensible overall. So would it be sensible to UL files to more than one file host at a time to 1) try and get round the RS speedcap and 2) act as a hedge against filehosts getting shut down or doing a Filesonic? If so, does anyone have any experience with any of these services and if so which would they recommend?

[buttsie]

Theres a small thread for multi hosts but from what I've seen over time their under as much pressure

http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/showthread.php?t=193014&highlight=mirrorcreator

I used to use multiupload and their dead

Mirror creator has been reducing its limits

Not a good bet for anything large...small files yes
but dont take my word for it trial it and see

IMHO

Mediafire is still the best short term bet...if they go down then 80% of wall street needs to find new storage & sharing...was reading recently they got taken down for day and then suddenly returned...thats power at play..they might delete you files down the track and close your account but thats where you have to be very careful with labelling of everything you upload...cant look like a pornfile sums it up

Them versus RS with 30kb download..i'd err to MF even if they do restrict file size to 200mb for free users...their download speeds which were always between 700kb-1gb have dropped a lot
(i've experienced 50k-200k on an 8mb line)but con-current downloads are still in vogue which is definitely a plus

RS have the German courts on their side but the 30kb is a huge deterrent for larger files