After over a decennary helping multitude download flick , music and other file cabinet , pop single file - sharing service RapidShare will shut down next month , by choice . The internet site is advise citizenry who apply it to secure their data before it gets deleted March 31 , 2015 .
Do n’t know RapidShare ? You might remember these icons from your Kazaa day :
Switzerland - base RapidShare has been around since 2002 , and in 2010 , it was counted as one ofthe top 50 most - used siteson the internet . But that popularity came at a price . Since RapidShare was for the most part beloved because it was an easy room to share copyrighted materials with just a direct download , the internet site made ( obviously ) enemies with amusement companies . The RIAA bid RapidShare a“rogue website”and the company dealt with a advance of cause . At one pointwas ordered by British courtsto direct surveillance on drug user and account illegal communion .
RapidShare tried to rebrand itself as a cloud storage divine service . By 2013 , it was lay off most of its staff . In 2014 , it stopped offeringits free service , effectively sacrifice itself a end sentence . With so many ways to share ( and pirate ) substance without pay , there was no way RapidShare could rest in business .
The current crop of popular file cabinet - apportion table service is n’t doing so hot either . Current prevail title-holder Pirate Bay is back up after a prolonged haitusafter getting raided last November , and just yesterday torrenting serving KickAsshad its domain seized . These situation are pop back up almost as fast as they ’re getting whacked down , but the on-going engagement between file cabinet - sharing services and anti - piracy endeavor is n’t going off anytime soon , and the surf seems choppier than ever . But it looks like Rapidshare will emphatically be gone for good . [ Gizmodo ES ]
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