RapidShare Rumors Not True (Online Again)
Many of you have commented about it and Shiny made a brief post on the fact that RapidShare IS UP AND RUNNING AGAIN. I thought I’d still post an article about why it was down, for those of you who are interested in the battle between Pirates and the law.
Edit: Ive corrected the post now, the previous news was simply speculation. The following is the statement of a RapidShare employee about the whole situation.
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)”
Source: http://www.blog.biggestinfo.com/
Comments(85)
Article @ http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/83948 is posted in 19.01.2007 ! 2007 not 2008 !!!!!!!!
This post contradicts the previous one. According to Rapidshare’s news page, it was a technical problem, not a legal one.
WoW! I’m glad I waited to get an account
its working fine for me, I do hate rapidshare on the otherhand
wouldnt just having a group of people read rlslog all day and report links that lead to pirated materials be a pretty dam good system.
That really sucks commonn…
This was last year mate…
Jan, 19 “2007″
It was never shut back it was a DNS errors
It was never shutdaow it was just an DNS errors
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)”
Rapidshare technician Steven Gircham has reportedly 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)”
you can still view the site via IP – 80.239.151.250 – But it could be just a shell.
They either got DOS attacked, and are having trouble getting there DNS working or they want it to at least appear that way.
rapidshare.com (DNS and web) is hosted on a net block of 195.122.131.0 – 195.121.131.255 (also referred to as 195.122.131/24 CIDR in network terms) which is part of a larger block 195.122.128.0 – 195.122.191.255 owned by Level3 UK service provider.
Level3 appears to be blocking inbound traffic destined for 195.122.131.0/24 at the edge of their network and they are dropping all rapidshare.com traffic such as DNS, web, etc. This is the point where they peer with other service providers.
This is highly unusual.
This is a drastic measure and one can only surmise two reasons that make any sense. 1) denial-of-service or 2) legal action.
If the inaccessibility issue has been intermittent, (and there have been spotty reports) that’s a hint at denial-of-service attack. However, if it’s immediate and sustained then it’s most likely legal.
At the moment, it would appear to be DOS and that they where NOT taken down by any “anti-piracy orginizations”
me <3 rapidshare
I’ve been out all day long, just got in and it working no problems, RapidShare.com for life!
dear oh dear..dated Jan last year!
please read EVERYTHING
otherwise it just creates unnecessary paranoia
I thought you guys were a bit more with it than that.
rapidshare owns torrents.. pay a small amount and download at full speed!
https://ssl.rapidshare.com/en/news.html
That was my bad, the article I read at http://www.downloadsquad.com had it wrong..
Ive edited it now though.
this post is completely bullsh!t
good thing you edited that, even though you were better off not posting at all
why even bother with this lol
as paris hilton would say: Not hot.
Lol @ ReeGed
I had 2 correct you there!!
Know the facts before posting a topic like that!!
lol
http://www.blog.biggestinfo.com/
was my source for the update.
And im sorry bout the mistake, but we’re all human eh?
wasnt the previous topic enough lol
Lol ill let u away with it this time ReeGed , there was alot of comfussion about the topic
haha thanks
And it’s all thanks to you guys downloading from Rapid Share at 5000kB/s instead of downloading from a proper torrent client so you can seed back your share. You people that use Rapid Share, and all those other sites, are making torrents obsolete.
I love Rapid! i got 2 premium accounts lol!
Mega upload is a million times better, and you dont need rapidshare time resetter either.
Anyone know if this is real?
http://www.newtorrents.info/torrent/35031/Ross.Kemp.in.Afghanistan.Part.1.WS.PDTV.XviD-SFM.html
Megacrapload? LOL! never! Made in flash and complicated as hell. I had it only for 1 month! That is why people love Rapid!
Shame, I want to see these guys doing some serious prison time.
They broke the golden rule.
“Do not make money from warez”
I hate Radidshare!!
@29/RS: Yes it’s real, I downloaded and watched it today.
What about Blade Runner Final Cut? Is it out but nothing on RLS?
off topic…. Any 1 got news on a REAL copy of Cloverfield???
Also any1 know whats happening with the National Treasure 2 R5???
Should have dropped few days ago according to this months R5 Release
@ wh0is – they r not making £££ from warez, but from hosting files. u decide what u wanna upload. it’s not that they upload it and make u pay if u wanna download.
I suggest you pull yr sh1t 2geather and think b4 u write such BS.
Down with RAPIDSHARE!! Start the BITTORENT revolution!!!
rapidshare sux
why do people download movies and things from here illegally but pay to get them from rapidshare?
Speed issue maybe? You cant wait 24 hours to get it from a torrent or something?
sheesh
@36 Sure they are and on a more serious note you try and get them to remove somthing, I have reported abuse to no reply.
@38
Try downloading Bioshock/Crysis (6GB ish) via BT, with 1 or 2 seeder and 3000000 leecher, then you understand the beauty of RS.
private torrent sites > public and theres so many of them now its not even hard to find one. all you need to do is seed back
For those still with Rapidshare issues, refresh your DNS cache . . and things should be back up now anyway
rapidshare SUCKS D### !
(Rapidshare Premium) + (RLSLOG.net links from comments) FTW!!!11 one six
Damn $5/month for a premium rapidshare account! I’d rather pay a pretty whore to suck my d!ck than pay what should be free!
ummm poz, head jobs usually free. Never paid 4 a bj yet, never will. but i agree it RS sux if u don’t wanna make them rich. Its like me tellin the cops “I Didn’t sell that DVD 2 that person, I merely got $$$ off him as a subscription fee for my services of providing him with copied disk.”
Some how i think my ass would b grass, why RS any different?
rapidshare isnt selling you warez its selling you the ability to host your files of any kind with the added perk of letting you share your files with other members.It just so happens alot of people host warez files.
so true Ben, so true.
@40
the point i was trying to make is that people want the damn thing straight away.
if u waited a little longer then u would have more seeds and it would go faster.
But u can pay to get it a little bit earlier than me.
@47
i smell an RS mole!
Rapidshare is just down again!!
we all known that the germens are the best y worry
Can anybody access rapidshare.com now?
It seems they are down again!
Torrents would be great if so many isps wern’t traffic shaping, port throttling and placing bandwidth caps. if it was just a speed issue I could deal with that. Its the double to tripple bandwidth usage that are starting to turn people off.
@xaardante (49): RS-links are as far as getting something early that you could possibly get in my opinion. Even public torrents would be faster than that.
I however agree that rapidshare is nice for hosting a file now and then, but not for downloading releases.
The whole meaning of piracy is that YOU DON’T PAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sooooo in other words FU.K RAPIDSHARE!!!!!!
Megashares RULES!
Megashares rules because u can make it only one file and with flashget i download at 6mb/sec maxed out.. i download movies in 5 minutes and dvdr’s in 25-30 minutes
Fack rapidshare exploiting the freeworld of piracy!
that would rule, KoOlWaReZ
@ KoOlWaReZ
And Megashares is also being monitored by MediaSentry
RS is The Best >>>
uh oh fbi/cia are crawling up your butts
I RATHER PLAY HIDE & SEEK
damn i thought something was wrong this morning before i went to work i couldnt get rapidshare working thanks for info.
I just renewed my rapidshare account couple of days ok.
And people actually pay for this service? There’s one born every minute…
official story from rapidshare.com:
“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.”
17. January 2008 – Winner of our high-end PC
The winner is Matthias C., Brühl (Germany). Congratulations!
https://ssl.rapidshare.com/en/news.html
lol
I personnally have a filtered internet connexion that does not allow for any p2p/torrent activities. Rapidshare.com is my new god
Might want to read this article…
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/83948
@gr0b1: Then you might want to get yourself a decent unfiltered connection if at all possible. If not, I’m sorry.
@C0LDSH07: It’s a year old.
RS premium is great, Torrents are great.
What’s the problem, why rant about it?? Not everyone can spend days to get the stuff they want!!
rapidshare vs torrent? come on now…
I can download 20 films with rapidshare in the same time as downloading 1 torrent film…
Plus, i dont have to worry about using things like peergaurdian to hide my ip, and worry througout the download that i’m gonna get sued for thousands of dollars…
Rapidshare is perfection, except for the 100mb limit. it does get a bit tedious joining files together, but it’s all worth it.
I’ve been using rapidshare for just under a year, and my 500gb external hard drive is full.
I’ve always hated the process of torrent files, and never understood why when i come on rlslog, people still request torrents. you people re living in the past.
And don’t say that people are idiots because warez are free… it is like 4 euros per month or something ridiculous like that, even a five year old could afford it with their sweet money.
rapidshare should pay some % (from premium cash income) of its traffic to companies (music, tv, movie, game …). otherwise it is getting richer on account of piracy.
At uni i cant use torrents directly so i have a RS account which i can get stupid speeds on. But for my UK tv shows i use torrents on a web based torrent account from leasetorrent that sorts me out with torrents and everything else. But in my oppinion RS is better than torrents
I agree Rapidshare is a joke.
And you can have speeds like RS if you join a private Torrent society. I am a member of two of them, and can easily download 2 or 3 full HDHDVD rips in a few hours.
rapidshare shall live forever you you people that say it stinks should go kiss off and go suck on you baby bottles
All germans and others are just sore because they lost the war,and rapidshare has the right to get rich,what is wrong with big business? all you little babies out there that are against it just are aso tight that your ass aqueaks.I rather download off of rapidshare and not get caught and get the right files without waisting my time like you idiot p2p ers
polz is a jackoff also like the rest who are against rapidshare,go get caught bittorrenting you dopes,while I will stay out of jail and get stuff for free while all of you will be in jail taking it up the ass like you should get it.Anti rapidshare babies.And if any of you have a problem witrh it I am a blackbelt in judo and have 2 friends smith and wesson
polz is a jackoff also like the rest who are against rapidshare,go get caught bittorrenting you dopes,while I will stay out of jail and get stuff for free while all of you will be in jail taking it up the ass like you should get it.Anti rapidshare babies.And if any of you have a problem witrh it I am a blackbelt in judo and have 2 friends smith and wesson.Goodbye you anit rapidshare babies have fun in jail when you get caught
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I’m a convert to RS from Torrents. I got caught using UTorrent and yes I did use PeerGuardian2 and blah, blah, blah. I covered myself as best as possible. I still got caught …3 times dl’ing from TRUSTED uploaders each and every time. The problem was, the popular uploaders are also popular for organizations that are paid to track/catch people in the act of pirating. My isp did nothing BUT .. I don’t know what would have happened if I’d been caught AGAIN by the movie detectives
and my isp had to send out yet another letter to me. I didn’t want to find out. So, I switched to RS and haven’t gotten caught at all because of the way RS works. The packets are rar’d so … must actually be opened to view. Why would the movie detectives take the time to open any rar’d packets when they have tons of people using Torrents that are dead easy to ‘view’ and ‘catch’?? Yeah, that’s what I figured out too. They leave us alone and go after the torrent people. I discovered too that I get movies, etc. MUCH faster and all I have to do is unrar the files to have a whole DVD downloaded. There is NO downside to RS and I’ve used both. I used to be a torrent freak for about 2 years. Now, there is no comparison … RS is the only way I’ll go now. The monthly payment is nothing compared to being scared into NOT downloading even one single torrent. If you haven’t been caught downloading a torrent yet … it’s just a matter of time (provided you live in a country that cares. I supposedly live in one that doesn’t but yeah … I got those letters anyway) Now, I download whatever I want after being afraid to almost even turn the computer on. hahaha Just my opinion. If a torrent you download is one that’s being monitored even for a little while, once you connect, BAM … they got your info! Not worth it to me. RS is my thing. 
rapid$hare really $ucks
http://rapidsharesucks.blog.com/