Would you pay for rapidshare?

[CARLOCOLUCCI]

I will never pay for warez

[peepin]

Simply no it's free all over the internet ,lots of alternative i can choose.

[L33ch3r]

Yeah, I bought a premium account because the wait times and download speeds are too slow for a free user. With their new system of rapids it's actually pretty cheap unless you download a huge amount. you can get 400 rapids for just 5 Euro, and a basic premium account is just 99 rapids per month for 30GB of download. If you use the happy hours, though, you can increase that to 300GB. So, you get about 300GB of downloads per month for just 1.25 Euro. Pretty cheap, if you ask me.

[buta]

Nope torrents are quicker

[themask]

never torrents is the best

[Fleissig]

sure not, rapidshare delete to much links!!! and freeware can i download on the internet and not need rapidshare.

so you find many better hoster for free (mediafire...evrtime full speed, Letitit...never delete links)

[Ultraviolet]

Friend of mine has bought a monthly account a few times.
At first I was opposed to this - of course you can get the stuff for free anyway.
But if you think about the hassle with filesharing:
First of all you always fear that you'll get in legal trouble. Downloading from OCH seems pretty safe compared to uploading stuff (bitt, emule)
Second: If you move away from the unsafe methods (emule, public trackers) you'll end up on private trackers.
There you have several problems: Getting in, staying in and keeping a decent ratio.
Plus you might not find everything you need on one tracker, so you'll have to spread out - which means more work.

I'm doing the latter, so I know what this means.
I can easily understand that there are a lot of people out there, who'll just buy an account with a OCH, go to some big forum and find all the links they need.
And to all that say torrents are faster: I think you never had premium access to RS - the downloads will max out your connection for sure.

[tokiodrift1]

There are pros and cons for both methods, such as content, speed, security and communities.

[seldom]

Downloading from OCH seems pretty safe compared to uploading stuff
...
just buy an account with a OCH, go to some big forum and find all the links they need.

I am ashamed to ask - what is OCH ?

As for the rapidshare - I won't pay, see no reason. There are several autodowloaders for RS around that do an excellent job.
Also it is not the best server to upload stuff - an uploader's IP gets tracked, a lot of people are having difficulties downloading from there and often ask to re-upload files somewhere else.

[Instab]

I am ashamed to ask - what is OCH ?

One Click Hoster

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There are pros and cons for both methods, such as content, speed, security and communities.

trü, and it seems all but community are in favor of och

[anon]

And to all that say torrents are faster: I think you never had premium access to RS - the downloads will max out your connection for sure.

True, I have always maxed my connection with Premium accounts and MSD, and have seen screenshots of people reaching 10MB/s.

Retention in one-click hosters is also much better than with torrents. If the file is still there, it'll always download fast, regardless of its age. Same goes for Usenet, for that matter.

[Instab]

Trü, I have always maxed my connection with Premium accounts and MSD, and have seen screenshots of people reaching 10MB/s. .

no problem with the most major providers. maybe not for a single file but with a fat line you can use 3 or 4 connections at once

[wossy666]

I'd never pay for RS

[anon]

I'd never pay for RS

If you (and the other posters with similar statements) don't tell us why, we may as well move this to the Inquire Around section. Something I don't want to do, since there's otherwise been a lot of intelligent discussion here.

[nakhrali]

Yep.... though my first priority is to always download from torrents but many a time I don't get chance to seed back 1:1 especially in case of BR Rips.. In that case its better to download off RS.

But now after discontinuation of RS points... am finding very few RS links on net for new releases.. be it movies or apps. My RS expires in Jan 2011... may be won't extend further then.

EDIT:

Another reason for RS..one gets max speed from the start of download whereas in case of if one is late or early (posting time of torrent) speeds are likely to be low.