All Filehosts Suck

In 20 years online I've never seen an industry more clueless than the filehost biz.

All of them seem to struggle just to take your money, a process that is
routine on millions of other sites.

I tried uploadable (.ch), and it worked great the first time. I thought I'd FINALLY found
a professional file host. Nope....

Their site now consistently throws up order errors before I have a chance to
enter ANY payment data. They don't respond to mails on the topic.

The free service still works. So I guess the plan is that I'm supposed to suck on their resources without ever
paying them for anything.

It's no wonder filehosts are always vanishing. Kinda hard to run a business if
you can't figure out how to take people's money.

Agreed. I used to have premium with Rapidgator, but just found out they don't offer several payment options like Sofort anymore.
Really sucks big time.

felasco wrote:

"Those millions of other sites" aren't under constant attack by anti-piracy forces, that's why it's not a problem for them. Some in the anti-piracy movement make fake CP claims against file hosts and then complain to the CC companies about it. Or to Paypal. One well known guy would google a file host along with some typical CP keywords and then take screenshots of the results and send them to CC companies as proof! Of course you can throw in any words into the mix and get the same result, so it was complete rubbish but many fell for it. That same person was also accused of uploading illegal content and then complaining about it.

A friend of mine once had his own file host service that we used on private forums for the most part. Premium accounts were dirt cheap and he was just finally making his money back when one of the anti-piracy groups complained to Paypal about his business. Paypal immediately stopped doing business with him and he closed the host down because a CC company was going to cost too much money considering how few of us were using it. There were some alternatives but he deemed them not worth the hassle of keeping it going.

The fact that 99.9% of people who download porn for free will NEVER join a porn site no matter what, is something the industry just fails to understand. They still believe that all of those people WOULD join their site if they couldn't get any porn for free.

If Hollywood and the music industry were more reasonable with their prices, there wouldn't be so much pirating of their property. When CDs first came out, the most expensive part of them was the jewel case they came in! You can bet that hasn't changed, either. Yet they typically still want $15 for new releases! Even if you download them, they still charge you a relative fortune. It's absurd.

Youtube is the world's biggest pirate ship while google itself is the world's most complete pirate map. No one helps find pirate material more than those two sites, yet Hollywood and the music industry always gives them a pass. Same with the US government. This despite the fact that there are 10,000s - perhaps 100,000s - of full albums and full movies on YT and many of them have been there for YEARS and YEARS! And YT makes a fortune off of hosting them, so where is the outrage?

Anyways, here's a slightly related story about Filecrop, which is just a search engine used for looking for download links.

Code:

http://torrentfreak.com/uk-police-shutdown-file-host-search-engine-filecrop-140524/

Pay special attention to this part:

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Rapidgator does my nut in. I have been trying to download a file for about 5 days now. First it was telling me I am already downloading a file (which I'm not), and now half way through the countdown it redirects me to some advertising site meaning I can't download anything.

I get far fare more problems with RG than I ever have with Uploaded.

I use torrents for that reason.

How sites like Megaupload went down but Rapidgator is still in town. Any idea?

karlafan wrote:

Rapidgator no longer works for me, it breaks the connection about twenty minutes into a download; if you realise that with my poor download speed a 1GB file may take two hours this is quite annoying if I leave it unattended to download, then find it stopped long before the end. It has also started to tell me i'm already downloading, when I haven't tried in days. I'm currently downloading with Keep2Share and it's working fine.
I wouldn't risk a premium account with RG for this reason.
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I noticed that Rapidgator no longer offers credit cards as a payment plan.
I'm also having trouble with Keep to Share, and Depositfile.
My bank also rejects their charge.
I am looking to support this site by purchasing subscriptions to file hosting sites.
Can I use PayPal? I don't see it as an option.
Help, I can't get my fix!!
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Exciting News!!

Rapidgator was just named the biggest pile of crap in human history by the Foundation For Imaginary Scientific Research!!!

Way to go Crapidgator, kudos!