RapidShare news, tips and hacks.

Below are few easy steps and safety precautions to prevent phishing.

Phishers normally phish using link protectors that hides the real download links of the file. So be extra cautious while clicking on those links. The real RapidShare download link looks like this: http://rapidshare.com/files/123456789/xxxxx.rar”
Normally if you have login on to your Rapidshare account it saves your […]

wilsont3ch sent a complaint about the new captcha to the support team of RapidShare and got the following reply:
“The sitting animal is the cat.
The standing animal is the dog.”
The full reply follows.
“we are sorry that you got a error message when entering a Captchas.
We use Captchas to prevent automatically downloads.
Automatic downloads from Free-User decrease the […]

As every free user should have noticed, we are experimenting once again with the CAPTCHA system. The reason is that RapidShare is popular enough for people to create tools to download from RapidShare as a free user as if they were a premium user. This has a negative impact for our paying premium users, since […]

RapidShare’s own upload/download software RSM (RapidShare Manager) is now available.

Convenient downloads for Premium users
Upload resume is possible
Premium users can upload files with up to 2 GB size

Info + download

GEMA, Germany’s society for musical performing and mechanical reproduction rights, has obtained temporary injunctions against the operator of popular data exchange services RapidShare.de and RapidShare.com.
RapidShare.com is said to have used copyrighted works of GEMA members “in an unlawful fashion”.
The RapidShare.com & .de services operate in a near identical fashion. They both allow users to upload […]