Rapidshare no longers restrict free users to 30 kb/s

[Conan-kun]

So each episode of Conan in SD does not take 2 hours to download anymore!!!  Change was made on October 29th.  First good news in the file hosting world since those Mega guys were shut down.

[monsi]

Awesome.

[Magical Mystery]

There's an update to this story:

http://torrentfreak.com/rapidshare-limits-public-download-traffic-to-drive-away-pirates-121108/

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Here is the story from that link:

RapidShare Limits Public Download Traffic to Drive Away Pirates

Swiss-based file-hosting service RapidShare is about to take a drastic step in its ongoing efforts to drive away pirates. Starting later this month free users of the service will be limited to sharing just 1 gigabyte a day while paid users will be allowed to transfer up to 30 gigabytes to the public. RapidShare CEO Alexandra Zwingli says that the new measures will prevent abuse by persistent copyright infringers.

rapidshareIn the aftermath of the Megaupload shutdown, people have been keeping a close eye on other file-hosting services, RapidShare included.

As a company, RapidShare sees itself operating in the “cloud hostingâ€