Remember RapidShare? Once 1 of the world's nearly pop together with showtime always one-click online file hosting together with cloud storage website on the Internet. The fellowship has announced that it volition close downwards its concern at the destination of side past times side month.
RapidShare file hosting service announced its close downwards Tuesday through a break on its official website, proverb that it volition halt active service on March 31, 2015. All user accounts on the website volition no longer hold out available later this date, together with all files volition hold out deleted automatically.
WHAT RAPIDSHARE USERS MUST DO ?
"We strongly recommend all customers to secure their data. After March 31st, 2015 all accounts volition no longer hold out accessible together with volition hold out deleted automatically," the notice on RapidShare official website reads.
Just ii days back, the nearly pop Torrent website KickAss Torrents banned past times the .so registry (Somalian registry), forcing the site's operators to switch to or then other domain. Now, of a abrupt the oldest together with pop file hosting service is closing upward its shop.
RapidShare, founded inward May 2002, was widely used to portion copyrighted content directly. In 2009, the site claimed to convey 10 petabytes of files uploaded to its servers, together with inward 2010, it was said to convey hundreds of millions of visitors per month, making it alongside the world’s 50 nearly pop websites.
REASON BEHIND THE SHUT DOWN
The argue behind the abrupt shutdown determination is silent unclear, however, the legal troubles related to copyright infringement convey plagued the fellowship for years.
RapidShare has oft been faced several lawsuits precisely similar all other notorious file hosting services including The Pirate Bay, Megaupload and Isohunt, which all convey been hitting with legal issues for facilitating copyright infringement.
While RapidShare worked to cooperate with the amusement manufacture together with fifty-fifty tried to rebrand itself every bit a personal cloud storage service inward recent years past times introducing a number of measures to discourage infringement. But at the end, its user base of operations savage dramatically. It’s probable the site precisely isn't every bit profitable every bit it 1 time was.
The argue behind the closure could every bit good hold out the increasing contest with the other cloud storage services. We know that RapidShare cloud file hosting servers provides unlimited upload together with download sizes, but the service does build you lot facial expression to download files if you lot are non its premium user.
Comparatively, RapidShare charges roughly $680 per yr for 300GB of space, patch Dropbox charges precisely $99 a yr for 1TB.
ONLINE FILE STORAGE SERVICES Vs. COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
MegaUpload, 1 of the largest file sharing websites on the Internet, was close downwards inward 2012 past times federal prosecutors inward Virginia, together with the site's founder Kim Dotcom together with iii others were arrested past times the law inward New Zealand at the asking of U.S. of A. authorities, conspiring to commit copyright infringement.
The same happened inward the representative of The Pirate Bay — a widely pop torrent download website predominantly used to portion copyrighted fabric gratis of charge, when TPB went nighttime from the Internet next a raid inward Sweden.
The raid was inward reply to a complaint from Swedish anti-piracy grouping Rights Alliance. The law raided The Pirate Bay's server room inward Stockholm together with seized several servers together with other equipment. However, the infamous torrent download website The Pirate Bay (TPB) made a defiant render together with finally came dorsum online in conclusion weekend.
