An open letter to rapidshare.com

After we made them the number one file hosting company on the internet the good guys from rapidshare.com decided that enough is enough and decreased the download bandwidth for free users and by doing that destroyed the confidence that was given to them by the free “www” world

A paying costumer is paying you not just for speed he is paying you to get the best material out there. Speed comes after quality material!

As far as I concern the math is simple for example if one 500mb file takes me 3 days to upload I think I have earned the right to download other files as fast as my bandwidth allows me

In other words let’s look at this equation in man hours:

500mb file takes 1hr to split and another 30min to edit preview picture and posting it on a blog And another 3 days to upload to rapidshare.com 7$ per hour makes a lot of money! If you upload more then one file then do the math yourself!!!

If you want to give your costumers better service tweak your servers to handle more efficient flow of data or just buy new servers.

Do not do it on the backs of free uploading members of rapidshare.com.

Remember we own the content, we own the digital river of data!

In other perspective watch your competitors (you have plenty) they will offer a better service and we as a community will help them achieve this goal.

Bring back the good old days we do not want to leave you noting but bits and pieces of worthless data.

Thank you in advance,
The free WWW community



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boygirl wrote:

Sorry, but you don't. The reward for uploading and sharing a file are the rapidpoints. It is solely rapidshare's decision to reward you with points, bandwidth or candy sticks.

boygirl wrote:

I did. It takes me about 30 seconds to start winrar, add a password and choose the chunk size. It takes 2 mouse clicks and 10 seconds to create a preview using mpc. Another 30 seconds i need to start the rapidshare manager and initiate the upload. And the really hard part of creating the blog or forum entry takes approximately two minutes (i know im slow).
Alltogether i am investing 3 minutes and 10 seconds of hard personal labour into one post. The rest of the work is done by the computer. So the math is 37 cents per post.

Sidenote: 3 days for uploading 500mb??? This means you got less than 2 kbyte/s upload speed. Sounds to me as if the rapidshare bandwith restriction is the least problem you got.

boygirl wrote:
Servers as well as bandwidth cost a lot of money. Money they have to earn. Lets not forget that rapidshare as well as any other file sharing company out there is not a charity but a profit-oriented enterprise. In my opinion, their desire to turn non-paying free users into paying customers is justified and understandable.

boygirl wrote:
Hmmm. I wouldn't sign the first part of this statement.

boygirl wrote:

I consider myself also a member of the free WWW community and as you might have noticed: I do not agree. So i kindly ask you to speak just for yourself.