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Originally Posted by signupdamnit
To be honest I mentioned them because they were one of the first ones along with Megaupload's sister sites. I think if Rapidshare disappears it will put fear in the hearts of many of these owners and some of the users will think twice too. But yes it would be better to take out the real threats first. I'll go along with what you said.
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Gotcha. Yes rapidshare is very symbolic, but honestly I do not think they're going to get busted - they dropped their rewards program almost two years ago, they do really remove master file upon recieving a take down request, they block infringing files by hash value so they cannot be easily reuploaded, and probably the most important of all they have a long record of strong anti-piracy statements made by their officials. Not just hilarious "we're legal because we think so" made by MU ppl, but real ones, backed by real action. So unless there's a log of recent e-mails somewhere showing them encouraging infringment, or money laundering scheme going on, I think they're safe.
I think rapidshare is actually the wisest of the bunch - they got big on piracy but back pedaled of it just in time and although they lost huge amount of traffic because of it, they capitalized on their popularity into the legit file exchange market. I know many companies are using them to swap files between branches, honestly I'm even thinking myself about getting premium account for studio uploads because it's cheaper and faster than running our own exchange server which we're using for that currently. The only thing that is stopping me is that it's rapidshare that sucked alot of our blood back then.