Rapidshare

RapidSpread is another free file mirror service similar to Uploadjockey but supporting even more file-mirrors, while Uploadjockey supports Rapidshare, Badongo, Easy-share, Zshare, Megaupload and Depositfiles, RapidSpread also supports Uploaded.to,Mediafire, Zippyshare, Sendspace, FileFactory and Imageshack.

Bad news for Rapidshare Premium users, the file-hoster has decided to cut back daily download quota for premium users to 4 GB daily from 10 GB earlier, which means a reduction from 50 GB per week to 28 GB per week.

In an official press-release the company announced:

Due to the significant number of new users who subscribed to Rapidshare during the last two weeks, we decided to extend our internal resources. In order to maintain the best possible performance for all Premium users, we decided to limit the download capacity to 4 GB for each user during this transitional phase. Premium users will be able to save up to 30 GB of download capacity, if the daily 4 GB volume has not been used.

The new limitation should not affect majority of the users but will certainly hurt few doing heavy downloading on daily basis. If you are not rapidshare service fan and don't like their restrictions, I would suggest giving MediaFire a try, this can truly be a Rapidshare Killer.

RSFind is a handy Firefox extension to grab file-sharing links like Rapidshare and Megaupload from a webpage, RSFind lets you scan a webpage for links and then let you manage (open, copy etc.) some or all of them altogether.

You can copy all or selected links to clipboard for using with your favorite downloader or make them open in new tabs, this comes very handy when links are not clickable or are scattered through

One of the most popular file-sharing service RapidShare may face forced shutdown if unable to comply by German court's ruling against them, for removal of copyrighted content already on their servers and taking measures against uploading of copyrighted content by its users in future, the German regional court made this ruling after GEMA the German equivalent of RIAA started legal battle against Rapidshare.

If this would had happened in the US, web site operators are protected by Safe Harbor provision in the DMCA, protecting them from liability as long as they remove infringing content after being presented with a DMCA prescribed takedown notice.

Christian Solmecke, an attorney for Rapidshare, said:

"I believe that Rapidshare will appeal against the decision of the Landgericht (District Court) of Düsseldorf,"

"If they do so, we will have to wait and see what the Oberlandesgericht (Higher District Court) of Düsseldorf (as the Court of Appeal) says."

Rapidshare released their official download manager "Rapidshare Manager" - a free software for rapidshare premium users to download files without hassle, RapidShare Manager is a user friendly tool to upload and download files from RapidShare.com, software allows professional uploading and downloading for beginners as well as experienced users. Upload is possible for premium, collector's and free user. Premium users can upload files with a file size up to 2000 MB. Files bigger than 100 MB can only be downloaded by Premium users, unless the files have been a direct download and the traffic is paid by the file holder. Additional information to this feature can be found in the Premium Zone.

RapidShare Manager requires Microsoft .NET Framework installed on your computer to run.

RapidShare is the world leader in one-click file hosting arena, despite being the most popular file-sharing service rapidshare.com lacks file search feature, the only reason I can assume they lack this feature is to avoid searching of copyrighted files by their legal owners getting illegally distributed by this pirate friendly file-hosting service. Nevertheless, their exist many services which allow you to search files hosted on rapidshare.com and other major file-sharing services like Megaupload.com, these free file search engines can be used to search for links of software, movies, music and ebooks hosted on rapidshare and similar services.

We have also created free OpenSearch & Google Toolbar plugins for searching rapidshare files from Firefox and IE7 search box, Just click on the plugin links below to get easy access to file-search:

Rapidshare File Search Plugin For Firefox & IE7 >>

Rapidshare File Search Google Toolbar Button For Firefox & IE7 >>

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Rapidshare.Com - The leaders in one-click file-hosting have introduced direct file downloading options for premium users, now any file can be converted to a direct download and users can download directly bypassing the rapidshare free user limitations.

Rapidshare File Hosting Service:

"RapidShare provides professional web hosting for your website or your company. Our strong infrastructure allows downloads at the highest level while offering attractive conditions.

With RapidShare you can offer your customers the possibility of downloading from 10 mirrors that are connected through five different carriers. No matter where your customers live, they will always experience fast downloads.

RapidShare offers the highest possible system stability through data redundancy. We can guarantee a mean annual availability of 99.7%. In case this is not enough for you, you are hereby allowed to upload your files twice. Chances are 99.5% that your files will then be saved on a different server, boosting availability to amazing 99.95%.

Especially for bigger companies, RapidShare offers a file sharing cluster solution. Your files will be saved on many servers at the same time and your users will be leaded to a random server automatically. This clustering makes it possible to handle a high amount of traffic concurrently, for example on events or important software updates, where a concurrent bandwidth usage of more than 500 MBits is required."

Rapidshare is also giving out 10 GB of free direct download traffic to test the service, additional bandwidth can be purchased at very cheap rates.

RapidshareLeecher 2007 v 2.0 is a free software to download files from the world's largest file-sharing network Rapidshare, this version automatically decodes the image code allowing you to use the service without any hassle in a more easy way, RapidLeecher 2007 can run into fully automatic mode residing into system tray using minimal system resources monitoring user clipboard and autostart file download from rapidshare in background as soon as a rapidshare link is copied into the clipboard. The free software has support for proxy servers so that you can download many files at the same time (using different proxy). and multiple instance of the software. Requires Microsoft .Net 2 framework to work.

Rapidshare Ultimate 2007 is a free software to download files from the world's largest file-sharing network Rapidshare, based on the source code donated by previous RapidLeecher author this version automatically decodes the image code allowing you to use the service without any hassle in a more easy way, RapidLeecher 2007 can run into fully automatic mode residing into system tray using minimal system resources monitoring user clipboard and autostart file download from rapidshare in background as soon as a rapidshare link is copied into the clipboard. The free software has support for proxy servers so that you can download many files at the same time (using different proxy). and multiple instance of the software.

Main Features Include -

1. Fully Automated Downloading supporting a semi-automatic option.
2. Automatic CAPTCHA Image Detection.
3. Auto start at system boot with system tray support.
4. Clipboard monitoring.
5. Silent operation mode, will sit and wait for links in system tray.
6. Pr@xy Support for simultaneous downloads and unlimited downloading.
7. Inbuilt Downloader with detailed static's.
8. Full installer and uninstaller.
9. Very simple to use.
10. Pleasant, easy to use interface.
11. Constantly Updated.
12. Adware & Spyware Free.
13. Support is provided for users with quick BUG FIXES
14. Best of All its FREE & SAFE.

CryptLoad is the latest entry to the ever growing list of software tools to automate file downloading from file-sharing services like Rapidshare.com, rapidshare.de and megauplaod.com amongst many other.

Features Include:

* Easy and automated file downloading from all the major one-click file hosters.
* Automated OCR/CAPTCHA, in our tests decoding worked only few times
* Automatic renew of IP address.
* Support for PREMIUM downloading with multi-part download.
* Automatic link decoding of link protetor services like Rapisafe.de
* File plugin system to add more services.
* Full support and bug tracking system.
* very prety GUI.

UPDATE: The only megaupload download hack working now is Megaupload Downloader 2008.

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