Rapidshare now works for the US. & Fileserve & Hotfile will never be back. They have both been compromised and their money seized. Not only that they have lost the first stages in the court cases brought by the US, when they were ordered to pay millions of $$. Hotfile continue to fight....
Rapidgator are now under the scrutiny of the US....only a metter of time methinks.
& many sites have now stopped using Paypal, as PPal will report those with illegal content
I too have downloaded with different File Hosts to test and check them out. I also investigated for months all FHosts around at the time when all this crap about copyright really "hotted" up. I made a sticky thread about all of them in the Pirates section
For me the best one is still File Factory and they regularly release great deals, like Premium for $39.95
per year
These days Uploaders tend to use different new FHosts, but there are those that will supply other FHosts, but members have to request them, unfortunately most members just download and run...in fact they dont even post a thanks and click the uploaders posts. One other new one that is good for a free download is Ultragabit, but only a couple of Uploaders supply them at the mo, One is called
dtdups
Another one that I thought was good is Freakshare, Ive noticed some Uploaders have started using them again, the same with Lumfile.
As to FileFactory there are a few Uploaders that are now providing them, at my request. One is timoti and another is RobertoWarez-(he usually posts only in the Guests section), another uploader to check out is xione-marie (
xiona_marie), she uses Safefilehosting and I havent known her links to go down so far
Avoid extabit and netloading, they are YUK!