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| Sep 14, 2018 | Rapidshare’s Founder, Wife and Lawyer Stand Trial in Piracy Case | Founded in 2002, Swiss-based RapidShare was one of the first and most popular one-click file-hosting services on the Internet.
Like most sites of this nature, RapidShare was frequently used by people to share copyright-infringing material. ... |
| Feb 10, 2015 | RapidShare Shuts Down | RapidShare, one of the first file hosting services on the Internet, is shutting down next month. After March 31, all of its user accounts and data will be deleted.
The Switzerland-based service went online in 2002 and saw hundreds of millio... |
| Feb 10, 2015 | RapidShare shuts down March 31 | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
RapidShare, once the most popular file-sharing se... |
| Feb 10, 2015 | RapidShare shuts down March 31 | RapidShare, once the most popular file-sharing service on the Internet, has announced it is shutting down. The service ends March 31, after which all accounts will no longer be accessible and will be deleted automatically.
Founded in May 20... |
| Feb 10, 2015 | File sharing site RapidShare is no more | Things were seriously rocky for file sharing sites after MegaUpload was raided and shutdown three years ago. Several other sharing sites voluntarily closed their doors shortly after to avoid suffering the same fate, but since then it’s been... |
| Feb 10, 2015 | File-Sharing Icon RapidShare Shuts Down | Founded in 2002, Swiss-based RapidShare was one of the first and most popular one-click file-hosting services on the Internet.
Like most sites of this nature, RapidShare was frequently used by people to share copyright-infringing material. ... |
| May 21, 2013 | Rapidshare entlässt Grossteil des Personals | |
| May 3, 2013 | Filehoster Rapidshare forciert B2B-Geschäft | |
| Mar 18, 2013 | RapidShare Prepares to Mass Delete Free User Data Over 5GB | In today’s super-connected world we no longer have to store data solely on our desktop machines. We can now dump it into “the cloud” and access it seamlessly from any of our devices no matter where we are. It’s convenience on a grand scale ... |
| Nov 19, 2012 | How RapidShare Plans To Avoid MegaUpload’s Fate | It’s not everyday an Internet company watches its traffic numbers plummet – and rejoices. But that is precisely the scenario that cloud storage service RapidShare finds itself in as it seeks to draw a clear distinction between its business ... |
| Jul 5, 2012 | RapidDrive Integrates RapidShare With Your PC | RapidShare just released a new tool that integrates people’s RapidShare accounts with people’s Windows folders.
Those who use RapidDrive will notice an extra “hard drive” when they browse their computer files.
This drive shows all content h... |
| Jan 26, 2012 | MegaUpload Alternatives See Surge in Traffic After Shutdown | With a self-proclaimed 50 million users a day, MegaUpload was one of the largest file-hosting sites on the Internet.
Last week the feds shut down the popular site accusing its founder and six others of money-laundering and several copyright... |
| Jan 23, 2012 | 15 file-sharing sites like Megaupload that the Feds may target next | As more details come to light in the much-publicized Megaupload case, other file-sharing sites around the web are shutting their doors in fear that they could be targeted next by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Over the weekend, popular Meg... |
| Jan 23, 2012 | 15 file-sharing sites like Megaupload that the Feds may target next | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
As more details come to light in the much-publici... |
| Jan 20, 2012 | RapidShare “not concerned” about Megaupload takedown | The Rapidshare booth at the Leipzig Games Convention
Photograph by Kuba Bożanowski reader comments 82 with 51 posters participating
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While customers of Megaupload, both legi... |
| Jan 19, 2012 | FBI shuts down Megaupload 24 hours after Swizz Beatz revealed as CEO | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Federal prosecuters have shut down popular file-s... |
| Aug 29, 2011 | Pirate Bay founders launch BayFiles: a copyright-friendly file-hosting service? (Yup) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Founders of popular file-sharing website The Pira... |
| Aug 27, 2011 | Top 10 Largest File-Sharing Sites | The Internet is the largest copying machine ever invented, and if we take a look at the massive amounts of traffic file-sharing sites get, millions of people are using it to its full extent.
4shared, the largest English language file-sharin... |
| Jan 26, 2011 | Google Starts Censoring BitTorrent, RapidShare and More | The entertainment industries’ quest to root out piracy on the Internet has yet again resulted in commercial censorship. A few weeks ago Google announced that it would start filtering “piracy related” terms from its ‘Autocomplete‘ and ‘Insta... |
| Jan 12, 2011 | RapidShare Accuses ‘Piracy Report’ Publisher of Defamation, Might Sue | In the last year RapidShare has taken extreme measures to ensure that they are operating legitimately. The company is actively working with copyright holders to meet their needs and has employed various take down tools comparable to those f... |
| Jan 11, 2011 | Cyberlockers Take Over File-Sharing Lead From BitTorrent Sites | For more than half a decade, starting in the mid 2000s, BitTorrent sites dominated the file-sharing space. Early 2007 Mininova was the first BitTorrent site to earn a place among the top 100 most-visited sites on the Internet, and soon ther... |
| Jan 6, 2011 | RapidShare’s Measures Against Piracy Are Sufficient, Court Rules | Like most file-hosting services, RapidShare hosts a wide range of movies, music and software files that are distributed without the consent of the rightsholders. This situation has caused the company to be dragged to court on multiple occas... |
| Dec 28, 2010 | Watch out Big Content—RapidShare has hired a lobbying firm | reader comments 72 with 35 posters participating
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Guess who is mad as hell and isn't going to take it anymore? The RapidShare file service says it has had it up to its stora... |
| Dec 1, 2010 | RapidShare Gets 150,000 Euro Copyright Infringement Fine | On February 4th 2010, a group of large book publishers filed a lawsuit against file-hosting service, RapidShare. The plaintiffs, Bedford, Freeman & Worth and Macmillan, Cengage Learning, Elsevier, The McGraw-Hill Companies and Pearson, ... |
| Sep 3, 2010 | YouSendIt raises additional $15M to bypass email attachment limits | File-transfer startup YouSendIt, which allows users to bypass the limits that most email services put on file transfers, announced it raised an extra $15 million in its fourth round of funding on Friday. New investor Adams Street Partners l... |
| May 21, 2010 | RapidShare didn’t infringe on copyrights, says US court | reader comments 38 with 27 posters participating
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The US District Court of California denied adult entertainment company Perfect 10's request for an injunction against file-... |
| Mar 26, 2010 | Rapidshare Aims To Convert Pirates Into Customers | Similar to many other companies that operate in the file-sharing business, Rapidshare often finds itself caught between two fires. On the one hand it wants to optimize the user experience, but by doing so they have to respect the rights hol... |
| Oct 15, 2009 | Put.io is an innovative new cloud storage service | [Turkey] Until now, there’s been a lot of chatter about Put.io in the Turkish tech scene – but no-one had seen it. Today they’ve let us in to have a look at the service.
So imagine a service that downloads files from Rapidshare for you, the... |
| Oct 15, 2009 | Put.io Is An Interesting New Cloud Storage Service | So imagine a service that downloads files from Rapidshare for you, then saves them on your 50GB account.
Or forget about Rapidshare, maybe it collects files from Bittorrent automatically.
Or lets you watch a DivX video online, without downl... |
| Oct 14, 2009 | Want That Early Chrome OS Build? You Got It. | The hits keep on coming from Jonathan Frederickson, the TechCrunch reader who turned our initial revelation of a “chromeos” folder on the Chromium build site into a full-on walk through. Today, he’s doing what Google won’t: Making the early... |
| Aug 8, 2009 | 16 Apps That Make Sharing Large Files A Snap | File sharing services are not as popular today as they were four years ago. It’s not that people are sharing any less. Rather, they just found easier ways to do it. Would you upload a funny video from a friend’s email to any of those servic... |
| Jun 24, 2009 | Ouch! German Court Slams Rapidshare With $34 Million Fine (Updated) | The Regional Court in Hamburg, Germany, has fined file-hosting service Rapidshare a hefty €24 million ($34 million) and has ruled that the company must start proactively filtering certain content. The case was brought on by copyright protec... |
| May 24, 2009 | True P2P File Sharing Via Twitter: FileTwt | FileTwt is a new service that enables file transfers using Twitter, from presentations and rich text documents to ebooks and music files.
At the moment, the UI is a bit clunky and the file sizes are capped at 20MB, but the service presents ... |
| Apr 27, 2009 | RapidShare hands over user info in Germany, users panic | reader comments 25 with 22 posters participating
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The popular Germany-based file hosting service RapidShare has allegedly begun handing over user information to record label... |
| Jun 10, 2008 | YouSendIt Does The Heavy Lifting For Outlook | YouSendIt, an online file transfer service with a focus on businesses, is removing the beta label from an Outlook plugin that automatically reroutes large attachments through its so-called “FedEx for the internet” system.
Email accounts ten... |
| Feb 15, 2008 | BitTorrent Developers Introduce Comcast Busting Encryption | BitTorrent throttling is not a new phenomenon, ISPs have been doing it for years. When the first ISPs started to throttle BitTorrent traffic most BitTorrent clients introduced a countermeasure, namely, protocol header encryption. This was t... |
| Jan 29, 2008 | It's Fair To Say That Germans Will Soon Have Zero Access To Online File Sharing Sites | German owned yet globally popular file hosting site Rapidshare may be heading to the Deadpool after a German court found that it was liable for copyrighted files uploaded to the service.
The German equivalent of the RIAA, GEMA took Rapidsha... |
| Oct 12, 2007 | DivShare Upgrades its One-stop shop Free File Hosting Service | When it comes to decide where and how to host your files on the web you ask yourself two main questions: Are you ready to pay for it? What is the best service for a the type of file you need. File hosting/sharing is a totally crowded space ... |
| Aug 22, 2007 | Comcast Wrongfully Denies Interfering with BitTorrent | So who’s right here? The hundreds of people that seem to have the same seeding problem, or the Comcast spokesman Charlie Douglas, who denies that Comcast is monkeying with BitTorrent bandwidth. Apparently Comcast want people to believe the ... |
| Aug 11, 2007 | 27 Years of Warez Scene Release Info Leaked in Giant Database | An .NFO file (information file) is a small text file included with warez releases on the internet. They can be viewed with applications such as Windows Wordpad or a dedicated viewer such as DAMN NFO Viewer. These files usually include a lot... |
| Jul 30, 2007 | Windows Mobile 6 For Palm Treo 750 Is Out, Don't Tell Anyone | Just because I don’t like Windows Mobile doesn’t mean I should deprive you of the awesomeness that is Windows Mobile 6. If you own an AT&T Treo 750 and want to upgrade to the latest crap version then listen closely…
Installation and Upg... |
| Jul 30, 2007 | Third-party iPhone application successfully uses UIKit | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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Last week's news of an improved ARM toolchain and the ability to compile iPhone applications was a big step for iPhone hackers.... |
| Jun 18, 2007 | Ubuntu passes the Windows Genuine Advantage | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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Ubuntu is a great operating system for users looking to move from Windows. The user interface is easy to navigate, installing s... |
| Apr 29, 2007 | WinMo 6 for T-Mo Dash Leaked | ATTN T-Mo Dash Owners: WinMo 6 is finally here! Oh and don’t worry because this isn’t a Beta version. It’s the real deal holyfield. According to the folks on Howard Forums they haven’t had any problems upgrading so feel free to download and... |
