Index ⇒ General Topics ⇒ Rapidshare has a timer again...

[Trey]

I think it was 2:30 secends.
*edit* Oh, and the download speed has been reduced...

[Meddle]

To be fair to RS, they had to implement something. Basically what they had going was a marketing ploy to get more people to use their service. And now that MU has been forcefully shut down (which has had a cascade effect on other services as we have witnessed), they are seeing a flood of users from those other services and their bandwidth being squeezed heavily. To cut this short, it's no surprise that they did this.

[Trey]

Yeah, I'm sure there usage is way up now. No need to give it away for free anymore.

[Shattered]

The timer varies. I've encountered 6 min, 3 min, 2 min, or no waiting time.

[3dslUserLoad]

Meanwhile I'm using premium link generators, so I don't care about it...

[Trey]

l33t...

[grupof0091]

It became even worst, only 30 kb/s. Why bother with this rapidshare (in spanish rapid = fast)? They should be named Slowshare.

[Shattered]

Yeah, even JDownloader came up with a message about R$. The speed is very slow and resume is not supported anymore for free users.

[zobraks]

And all that just because we don't give them a single cent?!?
That's outrageous!!!

[Shattered]

They also have to eat.

[Trey]

The free download speed seems to vary wildly, probably depending on the traffic. Last night I downloaded a link and got desent speeds 200+kbs.

[grupof0091]

[Shattered]

R$ was one of the first popular hosters, so they've filled their pockets already a long time ago. They can afford to do these kind of things.

R$ clearly wants to distance itself from piracy, the thing that made them rich in the first place. On the other hand it's a good thing to do in order to survive.