Another rambling post about another service I greatly dislike.
Why does everyone insist on using rapidshare? There are other services that provide better terms and storage space, ones that aren’t as evil. I don’t want to have to wait ten minutes before messing up an impossible CAPTCHA, downloading my … GPL’d program … and then finding out I have to wait 28,645 minutes before I can download the next one.
It’s gotten to the point where I search EVERYWHERE else for the file to avoid using that dumb*ss site. Forget Web 2.0. This is Web 0.2.
Readers, save a kitten. Don’t use Rapidshare.
UPDATE: A warning about EvilShare: their policy forces you to give them the copyright to your files. They can’t enforce this if the file you upload isn’t copyrighted by you. So don’t upload anything that you have personally created to their website ;)
Also, Kit Macintosh has informed me of another site: http://smestorage.com/. Thanks!
Update 2: Rapidshare has a new site design, but that doesn’t mean it’s not evil anymore. It retained all its suckiness.
try smestorage.com – easy to use and easy to share files with people. Its free for a certain number of MB’s – can’t remember how much free space you get though
@Kit: Thanks! I added it to the post :)
[...] upload, and you’ll receive a link to your file which will be kept on the server for two days. It beats using Rapidshare for quickly sharing a file ;) … It is also integrated with mint-space, a web hosting service [...]
They changed their captcha for the upteenth time, and now its hard as hell to recognize what the hell is on the screen. On top of that the wait times between downloads is unreasonable. Waiting to download a file to begin with is stupid and pointless. The bigger the file, the bigger the wait time. For WHAT?
I cant stand that fucking site, and really dont understand the morons who upload there, you might as well bury it in garbage. I find 4shared is a really good site.
Wow! download speed is about 23KBs for free users. And to make things worse …it stops completely around 80 % download.
Good Job “RapidShare” should be called snailShare.
i’m soooo….. agree with u…… mediafire and indowebster is my choice !