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Trafficlimit
January 30, 2007
We have decided to keep the prices we have right now. This means that you can purchase your premium accounts or extend your existing accounts by paying much less than in the past. Furthermore we have adjusted the traffic management as well because some people did not understand the old system. Unfortunately a traffic management is necessary to keep the prices we have right now. Within five days you may download 20 GB. For example you may download day by day 4 GB without any interruption. An alternative is that you download 10 GB today, 10 GB tomorrow with a break following the next three days. We think this management is by far more flexible than a strict 4 GB per day rule. We hope you share this opinion with us.Extension | 2 further Carriers
January 10, 2007
Today we have integrated two new carriers in our network. Now you can download your files via VSNL and GlobalCrossing as well. We hope that you can download files even faster now. Especially users in countries, where the existing carriers have not the biggest lines will be able to download files much faster than before. Just check out which carrier is the fastest for you. RapidShare is now by far the most flexible and fastest file hoster with the most extensive backbone network world wide.Information | Promotion
January 2, 2007
Our supporters have received many e-mails with customers asking us why the special-offer is only valid for new accounts whether we don't care for our existing customers. To show you how much we care for our customers, we have extended the special offer until 31.1.2007 and furthermore its now also working for our existing customers. This means you can now also extend your existing account for 30% less than the original price.Extension | Promotion
January 1, 2007
Since many users were on holidays while our special-offer was valid, we have decided to extend the special-offer until 31.1.2007. This means you can still buy a premium account for 30% less than the original price.Design | Neues Logo
December 30, 2006
Today we have installed a new logo on our website. We hope you like it. Furthermore we will offer something very nice for the attentive user at New Year's Eve. On 1.1.2007 at 00:00 sharp central european time (CET) you will be able to convert 1000 of your premium points instead of 10000 points. This means you can extend your account for a month by spending only 1000 points. You can also create a new account for only 1000 points. This special offer is only valid for exactly one hour, so from 00:00 to 00:59 am. We wish you all the best and a happy new year!Feature | Linux Upload Skript
December 22, 2006
Our linux department was on holidays for two days with the order to program two OpenSource upload-scripts. The target audience is the professional linux user, who is searching for comfortable ways to upload files to RapidShare. For the first time we have used the new RS API, which contains numerous valuable functions making it possible to write comfortable and feature-rich upload-managers for RapidShare. For example its now possible to resume aborted uploads including a MD5-check after the upload is completed to ensure the upload worked as it should. Two scripts have been created. The first script, which you can download here already contains everything you need to upload files as a free/collector's/premium-user. Just the upload-resume is missing here. However, this script is rather well documented and easier to understand than the second script. The second script is based on the first script and extended by the new upload-resume. This feature makes the second script more complex than the first one. You can download the second script here. Please notice that these scripts are created for the professional computer user. If you need help with this scripts, please talk to computer experts you know. Unfortunately we cannot provide support for these scripts. We hope that our windows department will include the new RS API in their programs within the next weeks so that upload resume is possible there as well. Since the RS API functions are available for everyone, we hope that we will see some nice upload managers with upload resume very soon. We will try to contact the programmers of the best upload managers and implement the programs in our website. If you have suggestions regarding our scripts, feel free to contact our support. Drop us a mail as well if you want some additional RS API functions for your programs. Maybe we will implement it.Christmas special | 30% price reduction
December 18, 2006
The christmas feeling has of course also caught up with the RapidShare team. Whil ecelebrating the RapidShare christmas party, we have decided to give you a present as well. We lowered the prices of the premium accounts by 30%. This special offer is valid until 1.1.2007. Furthermore its now possible to pay from all over the world by using our new wire transfer payment possibility. The whole RapidShare team wishes you a merry christmas and a happy new year.Captcha | Old Captcha System activated again
December 13, 2006
Since a few users had problems with the new AniCaptcha, we have replaced the Captcha with a more conventional one.Change | Flatrate removed
December 7, 2006
Unfortunately we had to reactivate the traffic limit due to the traffic trend during the time without a download limit. The high traffic volume was mostly caused by abuse of several accounts. We're sorry that the measures we have to take against this abuse also introduce restrictions to honest customers. But solving problem by means of a traffic limit is better than raising the prices of premium accounts.We have also changed the captchas (code pictures) Free users have to enter before downloading, because there has also been massive abuse.
These changes bring advantages for normal users who have average (or slightly above average) traffic needs. We hope there will be more speed for your downloads available now. We apologize for slow download speed on certain servers during the last few days.
Change | Session management
November 25, 2006
Today we have made many internal changes in the session management of the downloads to make the system ready for future enhancements. The most visible change is that we have removed the traffic limit completely. You can finally download without any limits now. Please take notice that account-sharing, i.e. to share your premium account with other people, is not allowed.In case you use a download manager, you should know that changes happened here as well. Those changes only apply for you if you used to insert direct links (http://rapidshare.com/files/837261/635273483/file.zip) in your download manager instead of the normal RapidShare URL (http://rapidshare.com/files/837261/file.zip). There are no download sessions for premium users anymore. To successfully use a download manager of your choice, please follow these steps:
- Start your download manager
- Add one or more conventional RapidShare URLs in the download queue.
- Enter your premium login and password in the given form of your download manager BEFORE you start the download.
- Start your download