Rapidshare Loses Lead

[BrianBosworth]

In recent months Rapidshare has aggressively targeted search engines and indexers that abused the company’s trademark and facilitated copyright infringement. These actions are part of their campaign to create goodwill with the entertainment industry, but by doing so RapidShare is also shooting itself in the foot. As a result of the domain seizures the site is no longer the leading file-hoster.
“The domains they have seized were sending significantly large amounts of traffic to their service, which converts into paying customers, and makes RapidShare.com good money,” Jesse told TorrentFreak. “We know for a fact that a lesser-known file locker will garner about 10-15 paying customers for every 10000 that show up to their download page.”

We have no doubt that this was taken into consideration by RapidShare, but we have to assume that the company feared even worse if they didn’t go after the ‘infringing’ domains.

The result is clear though. After having led the file-hosting business for several years, Megaupload has now surpassed RapidShare as the most visited cyberlocker. Just a year ago RapidShare was among the 15 most visited domains on the Internet together with Google, Facebook, YouTube and Wikipedia, but it has meanwhile dropped to 86 according to Alexa.

Competitors Megaupload, Hotfile, 4Shared and Mediafire all surpassed Rapidshare in terms of traffic this year.

RapidShare.com Takes Out Rapidshare.net, But Loses Lead | TorrentFreak

[anon]

Surprised? After the "reform" of their rewards system it's no wonder almost everyone stopped using them, moving to better services instead.

[BrianBosworth]

One can only wonder how long before they modify their services to make them more user friendly again.

[alpacino]

This was bound to happen, the new 'rapids' system suck so hard I don't even want to learn how it works. New releases uploaders seem to have ceased using it too, in favor of Hotfile, Fileserve, Filesonic, which all suck too imo (captcha for free users), sometimes Storage.to (suck for me, slow speeds etc). So I'm always looking for Megaupload and/or Netload.in.

[pimphead07]

This was inevitable.. hotfile will become the new king i think considering the amount of files hosted there at the moment which equals near about the same as megaupload

[anon]

Hotfile, Fileserve, Filesonic, which all suck too imo (captcha for free users)

I like Fileserve because the speeds are very good for free users.

Though Megaupload's more or less the same, and without captchas...

[hessler]

rapidshare was king because they started early then their competitors there were no other options for people the rapidshare but now with other services showed up it was bound to happen.rapidshare share holders insist every downloader from their site to turn to paid costumer by employing annoying and very uncomfortable means its really a pain in ass to download from rapidshare and some other hosters but volia go to hell rapidshare and long live megaupload and mediafire

[ParamouR]

I'll arrange how I feel is the best :
Hotfile
Fileserve
Megaupload
Uploading
MediaFire
4Shared

As for the GUI I feel Hotfile and Megaupload is the best.
What to say about Rapidshare, their GUI is like hell they have changed like intentionally to degrade their status. But I think there is a big conspiracy behind this, seems like a tie-up with some big-big file sharing site