HISTORY
RapidShare was founded by Christian Schmid, who also took over management of the company after longtime CEO and COO Bobby Chang left in April 2010.
RapidShare used to operate two different websites. The original site is RapidShare.de, which uses the German top-level domain ".de", and the organization has its central office in Cham, Switzerland. The second website, RapidShare.com, has been operated and maintained simultaneously with RapidShare.de. On March 1, 2010, RapidShare.de was permanently shut down, and users visiting the site were forwarded to RapidShare.com. Furthermore, files uploaded to RapidShare.de were no longer available for download.
In 2010, RapidShare was said to have hundreds of millions of visitors per month and to be among the 50 most popular Internet sites.
Operation and services
Upon uploading, the user is supplied with a unique download URL which
enables anyone with whom the uploader shares the URL to download the file.
No user is allowed to search the server for content.
Software
RapidShare offers two computer programs to simplify file managing: It allows
for torrents to be uploaded to their own file server and quickly be seeded.
RapidShare Uploader
This software allows queuing of uploads. However, it cannot resume interrupted
uploads. It is available for Windows and runs without installation. RapidShare Manager
This software has many more features than the Uploader, especially queuing and
resuming the upload as well as the downloads (only for Premium Members—free
users cannot resume). The version linked on the site works with Windows Vista
and 7, Mac and Linux. There is an older official client available for
Windows XP, which may be obtained upon request from RapidShare or alternatively
from various third-party sources.[11] RapidShare does not restrict automatic downloads
to their downloader, however, they do not provide technical support to third-party
downloaders as they do for RapidShare Manager.
Fuller information can be found here;
RAPIDSHARE INFO
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