i'm not sure if the mods are aware, but it's not necessarily that people are reporting the links to rapidshare... rapidshare is currently involved in ongoing litigation from the german courts. they have been ordered to start policing their files and deleting illegal/questionable content. so even if you do this 300 post measure, it may not make a difference if you continue to use rapidshare. just a thought.
from a post in another thread:
Quote: In an on-going legal battle with GEMA, Rapidshare received an huge blow when a German court ruled that Rapidshare.Com is not doing enough to stop uploading of copyrighted content on their servers, The court said that the steps taken by Rapidshare using MD5 Hash based content filtering to block previously removed material is not enough and can easily be bypassed changing a few bytes by adding/removing/altering the file contents, the court also said that the company has to "proactively check content before publishing it", according to the court ruling Rapidshare should also log and check IP numbers of potential copyright infringers.
Without a viable business model after removing copyrighted content, Rapidshare might face shutdown as there is no Safe Harbor provision in German copyright laws similar to the DMCA, which protects them from liability as long as they remove the infringing content after being notified with a takedown notice.
disappointing news as i'm a premium member, but we'll see what happens.