Would you pay for rapidshare?

[lezahar]

Yes i actually do have a rapidshare account, and i will continue to pay to have it. The amount of content in rapidshare is immense.

[reptar]

would pay for it if there would be no torrents

[takomania]

ask me 2 years ago and i'd have said yes - now? no.

if you upload, http filehosting pays for itself. rapidshare used to offer awesome deals - i paid about 4 or 5 euros a couple of years ago for a short term rapidshare account (i cant remember if it was only for a week or a month), and the same account still has over a year remaining due to me converting the points from people downloading my files to account extensions.

last year, rapidshare decided to screw over it's heavy users by binning it's points system. fileserve seems to have replaced them, once again providing lucrative lures to uploaders, so they're the one that a lot of people have switched to.

ftps/usenet for the win though... torrenting/http sites are beneficial because you can profit from them, whether that be in currency or 'other' forms of payment.