Goodbye Rapidshare .. first cloud service in the world to host the files officially end their services! ~ DepoTech

The famous direct download service RapidShare throws in the towel and will stop on March 31.

And the inevitable happened. Former glory direct download with MegaUpload when P2P was particularly in the crosshairs of the authorities, RapidShare will stop his active service on 31 March. On that date, all accounts will be deleted and the site therefore invites users to recover their data.

slow death
Founded in 2002, the site has undergone several major changes during its existence. Long been among the most used websites to exchange files - often illegal - RapidShare will particularly resented the turn after MegaUpload in 2012. At the time it was closed, RapidShare has indeed been subject implementing filters for the site content to prevent piracy.

A decision that will logically flee users, although this will RapidShare highlight its legal side and be more pro active in filtering date of 2010. In addition, despite efforts, P2P still breathing, while the legal and illegal streaming is also like a charm. Many perennial competitors saddled certainly revenue the site and who can explain the abandonment of RapidShare, since the site does not specify his reasons.

Another page is turned
Thus, despite its decision not to end up like MegaUpload, RapidShare will postpones the inevitable. Signs of this inevitable fall did not fail, since in addition to a constant loss of traffic in May 2013 the site was firing three quarters of its workforce. With the end of this service is an additional page for experienced surfers who closes and cemetery download services grows.

Rapidshare stats!

Rapidshare The service was launched for the first time in May 2002 and were created under the laws of property rights where they publish only original, deleted files pirated files, in 2009, the Service announced that it has on its servers more than 10 petabytes of data, equivalent to 1,000 terabytes, or a million gigabytes!

In 2010, the company said it has millions of users and visitors per month worldwide, making the site Rapidshare 50 of the most famous site in the world at the time.

Reasons for termination

Despite these statistics and numbers and extent Rapidshare There are some reasons that cost service life Foremost among these reasons is a violation of service dramatically property rights in recent years, which led to the lifting of most lawsuits against them and a number of critical decisions that lead to loss of service

Like many other sites that have claimed the lives of property rights violations, such as the case of the famous The Pirate Bay torrent site and issue the Megaupload site over the last few years, but it was a serious matter with a Rapidshare Service which fought the founders of the service for years in court to be given to the matter and decided to kill the entire service.

Another reason that led to the strengthening of decision-making is the fierce competition from the storage services online cloud that has invaded in the last period of several large companies huge benefits, so Rapidshare was unable to simply connect to the market competition of these giants.

In addition to the absence of Rapidshare capacity to reduce the price of services to fit with competitors because of the loss of the heavy cases of infringement of property rights where progress Rapidshare file hosting service for $ 680 per year, compared to 300 GB of space while offering 1TB local Dropbox service at a price of only $ 99 a year.