Rapidshare is one of the famous file hosting service provider in internet and very much used by movie, music, and application downloaders. Though rapidshare is used rapidly to spread pirated contents, they do have an option to report such content for removal of files from their server. This month first week, rapidshare has announced new plan which is called 1 package for all users that lets users buy number of rapids rather buying monthly packages. When the Rapids are exhausted, then you have to buy more to download more from rapidshare servers.And this package is named as RapidPro.
For 99 Rapids users immediately receive a traffic volume of 30 GB and a storage volume of 10 GB which last for 30 days.
price/ 30 days | storage/ 30 days | traffic/ 30 days | |
RapidPro | 99 Rapids | 10 GB | 30 GB |
If users need more volume, they can buy extra volume, of course. Each additional 1 GB of storage costs 2 Rapids per 30 days. 5 GB additional traffic volume will be charged with only 14 Rapids.
Additional storage: | Additional traffic: |
1 GB = 2 Rapids/month | 5 GB = 14 Rapids |
Unused traffic volume does not expire.
You will only be charged for additional storage if you activate the “keep files forever” option.
The prices for Rapids remain the same as before.
Prepaid funds | |
400 Rapids | 4,99 € |
1.000 Rapids | 9,95 € |
2.000 Rapids | 19,90 € |
5.000 Rapids | 49,75 € |
20.000 Rapids | 199,00 € |
That means that users can use their RapidPro 30 days for only 99 Cent making the new RapidShare second to none also in terms of value for money.
Its not just that, Rapid Pro do have some benefits like,
- Keep files forever: This option is not activated in the default settings. This means that if users exceed their storage volume, files that have not been downloaded for 60 days will automatically be deleted.
- Automatic purchase of traffic: This option is activated in the default settings. As soon as users reach the limit of their traffic volume, they will automatically buy additional volume.
- Automatic RapidPro Extension: This option is activated in the default settings. RapidPro-Packages will automatically be extended after 30 days if the user still has Rapids left.
Users can change these settings at any time in their account settings.
The new change of rapidshare plans will surely hit the pirated and illegal content sharing networks, ofcourse there are plenty of alternatives there exist today for hosting a file and sharing them in public and private forums. Many users already switched to different networks like megaupload, hotfile etc., to upload and share the contents in web. Which one you use ? Rapidshare , Megaupload or Hotfile ???
Rapidshare is really great. Before 2 months, I had a premium account and I enjoyed unlimited downloads.
They are really great, am ready to buy them too!!
Yes pradeep, I was using 1 year premium account before. But now they limited it totally with this rapids.
So wht happens to the existing premium rapidshare account holder who bought their account less than a year ago?
Rapidshare this move is not considered as the best for many existing users. People started to quit using rapidshare and this helps other competitors hotfile and so on.
I have same question as Rajesh.
Rajesh says:
September 11, 2010 at 10:08 am
So wht happens to the existing premium rapidshare account holder who bought their account less than a year ago?
I too had/have a 1 year membership that expires in June 2011. Am I screwed? Do I get credit for my remaining time?
Also, why is it so complicated. Does RS purposefully make things confusing so they can charge you just because you don’t understand the “new program”. I paid for the old program and I resent them changing the terms in the middle of my subscription. I am confused. I get “download error” on my RS downloads….I don’t know why…
I feel sorry about it mike. Have you contacted RS Support ? Because here you can find only news about the updates happening around world wide web. We have no right over the issue.
Please contact rapidshare support team and get the issue resolved. If they fail to, then please do reply here so that people here after will not go for RS due to its poor support and all of a sudden policy change which affects the existing users.
It should be like, the existing users will continue their period of subscription as per the plan they purchased and the new policy will reflect only the new users. Anyhow, please contact them first and do let us know here via reply.
Thanks.
This is an outrage!
In July they said: 99 rapids per month for 30Gb download.
Now they suddenly change that to 500 rapids per month for 150GB download. Who needs 150GB download per month???
I think it’s a scam and I will not renew my subscription with them.
There are plenty other good file hosting services these days, like hotfile and megaupload, to name but a few. (Stay away from turbobit.net though. No support for a downloadmanager, slow as hell and lots of aborted downloads)
Same here!
I’ve had it with rapidshare. First they convert a premium account into these rapids, totally omitting all the Rapidpoints I had (thus denying me over 1000 rapids) The terms they had invented at the time were totally nuts…
Then they go into the scheme (or should I say scam) as described above, which was acceptable. Guess they were only out to lure new users into their web…
But these new changes are ridiculous. I use Rapidshare to download some things once and a while, so the 150GB are utterly useless. I still have 55GB left from 2 previous RapidPro extends…
They want to become a legit download company, but they force you into downloading 150GB… I doubt I can even DL 150GB of legit data that’s even worth the hassle…
Shame on you Rapishare, luckily there is some competition now 🙂
It is ridiculous. Who does 150gb? I know know one.