Rapidshare loves you: No Captchas now!

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Inf

This is excellent news, coming straight from the link Shah gave me:

No more captchas – higher flexibility for premium-users

July 02, 2008

By eliminating the captchas we simplified the use of RapidShare’s free services significantly. In addition, free-users can now upload and download bigger files (up to 200 megabyte). Anyhow, to protect RapidShare from congestion caused by automated downloading, we limited the maximum download speed for free-users to 500 kilobit per second. To compensate for that, they do not have to wait anymore until starting a succeeding download.

Premium-users now profit from more flexibility regarding the download volume: It used to be limited to 10 gigabyte per day and can be “saved” now to a maximum of 50 Gigabyte. As a consequence, the volume that was not used is transferred to the following day automatically, up to a maximum of 50 gigabyte. If the complete download capacity is used up during one day, the premium-user is able to save another 10 gigabyte the following day.

(Source)

Enjoy yer leeching mateys for now, yer have no lame captchas. (Ok, sorry for my lame attempt at pirate speech).

This really simplifies downloading off Rapidshare, and I wonder how and if download managers can be used now. Previously, there was competition to see who can crack the RS captchas, now that’s a non-issue.

Oh by the way, the download timer is still there, so you will still have to wait. I’m sure somebody, somewhere will figure out a way to beat that.

Regarding the speed limits and the download limit, I doubt it really affects us Mauritians. Firstly, 500Kbps download speed limit doesn’t matter. Most of us have 128Kbps, or 512Kbps. It’s not that bad. 128Kbps folks will probably be enjoying full speed.

The 10GB limit is plain off-limits to us. I doubt anybody can download 10GBs in Mauritius with our available connections (unless you are an godly haxx0r).

Overall, I find that it’s a good move from Rapidshare to promote its services. But with limits like 10GB per day, or cumulative 50GB, isn’t Rapidshare directly condoning piracy? I don’t think your videos, documents and free music that you may share with others will amount to 10GB daily, will it?

Let’s see your views. 🙂

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  • What RS.com don’t tell you is that there’s no sharing of accounts anymore… 😐
    (so sorry for all my friends! 😛 )

    & I was getting probs with that bcoz RS kept telling me my previous IP is still downloading… it’s fixed now.

    🙂

  • It’s glad to see that admins have given rapidshare a new look without captcha. Now it’s more likely to have more downloaders but unfortunately mauritians like us won’t be really benefitting from rs as :

    1) We don’t have a credit card to buy/create premium account
    2) We don’t own a high speed internet connection

    While other people can benefit but unfortunately they don’t even make full use of their internnet conneciton.. in uk the minimum connection is 2 mb and the quota is around 10 gb per month i think. None of my family members make full use of their internet connection. During my stay here, I’ve been downloadin and downloading on rapidhsare until I had to reboot the router 🙂 for free download, the max trasnfer rate i get is 100 kb while on megaupload it’s over 200kb 🙂

    regards,
    Yasir