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Rapidshare has launched a new RapidPoints reward program. RapidPoints can now be redeemed for certain rewards like the Star Wars R2-D2 pepper mill, the Dalek helmet that deforms your voice or the mini 3-channel helicopter etc. You can also exchange these points for Amazon or iTunes shop vouchers. And like before, you can use them to create a premium account, renew your existing account or receive more traffic.

RapidPoints are accumulated to an account when a file that is uploaded to rapidshare from that account gets downloaded. Each download generates one RapidPoint.

Time to upload that hard-to-find file and earn a few rewards! And if you own a blog, now is the time to switch on comment moderation!

Yesterday, Rapidshare announced a new feature: premium users will now be able to convert RapidPoints into additional traffic! If a premium user has reached his daily download limit, he can convert each of his RapidPoints into 15 MB of downloadable capacity.

Users accumulate RapidPoints when a file uploaded by them gets a ‘hit’ i.e. each download of the file gives one point. Previously, these RapidPoints could be redeemed for premium accounts (10000 points for an account!) which encouraged a lot of spam on the internet. Spammers and premium-wannabes took to creating dummy files claiming them to be rapidshare passwords, hacks, working accounts etc. and bombarded blogs and forums with these files, hoping to accumulate rapidpoints. Now, this new ‘feature’ from rapidshare is bound to unleash new waves of spam attacks, with premiums joining the spammer bandwagon. The timing of this feature is highly questionable; a few days ago, rapidshare cut down on premium download capacity from 10 GB/day to 5 GB/day, upsetting its premium members. This new feature might be intended to appease them, while subtly encouraging them to spam.

In a statement released today, Rapidshare has stated that upgrading of its infrastructure is in full progress. However, it estimates that this process can take until the beginning of September to complete. Until then, premium users will have to bear with a 5 GB per day download limit.

Rapidshare announced today that it is upgrading its internal resources due to the significant number of new users who subscribed to Rapidshare in the last two weeks. This upgrade in infrastructure is aimed at improving performance and services for premium members in the long run. However, it has set a fresh temporary download limit of 4 GB per day on premium users during this ‘transitional phase’, pissing off the premiums who had paid for the 10 GB per day capacity. It has also announced that during this period, premium users will be able to save up to 30 GB of download capacity (instead of the usual 50 GB), if the daily 4 GB volume has not been used.

Rapidshare has finally done away with its much-criticized cats-and-dogs captcha system. Free users can now download a file immediately from the rapidshare servers without having to identify figures and input characters into the captcha system like in the past. Anyhow, to protect itself from congestion caused by automated downloading, rapidshare has limited the download speed of free users to 500 kilobits per second.

Rapidshare has simplified its download rules for premium members. Premium users can now download a maximum of 10 GB per day. Previously, the limit was 50 GB per 5 days, and users had to keep track of how much resources they had used up during the last five days. This new feature helps users keep a check on their download limit and ensures that he can download atleast 10 GB everyday.

Also, premium users can now ’save’ their download credit for the next day, and so on until it reaches 50 GB. As a consequence, the volume that was not used is transferred to the following day automatically, up to a maximum of 50 GB. If the complete download capacity is used up during one day, the premium-user is able to save another 10 GB the following day.

Rapidshare is now implementing a new feature called ‘Happy Hours’ for non-premium users. When the Rapidshare servers are not too busy, all download limits and captcha are disabled, allowing free users to download from rapidshare without any restrictions. Free users may also use various download accelerators and other tools during these happy hours.

Noone knows when these happy hours are implemented. However, various tools exist which detect if happy hours are active and notify the user. Some of them are listed below:

HappyCat:

This handy little application sits in the taskbar tray and notifies the user when happy hours are active on rapidshare. It can also play a custom audio track or run a file when happy hours are detected.  This application requires Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5.
Download HappyCat

HappyHour-Checker:

This is another application that checks for happy hours on rapidshare. Unlike the previous one, this checker does not require Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5.
Download HappyHour-Checker

HappyChecker - Firefox Add-on:

This is a Firefox extension which checks for Rapidshare Happy Hours (for Firefox users). The extension lets Firefox users check for happy hours automatically or manually.
Download HappyChecker for Firefox

Rapidshare places limitations on the IP addresses of free users. A non-premium user has download limits and has to wait for a certain time before he can start a download.

Various hacks exist to overcome these limits. If you have a dynamic IP address, you just have to renew your IP address to obtain a fresh download ticket from rapidshare and bypass the wait time. This can be done as shown below:

1. Click START
2. Click RUN
3. In the run box type cmd.exe  and click OK
4. Type the following in the command prompt:
   
ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
exit

5. Erase cookies and restart download

The above hack works only if you have a dynamic IP address. Try the javascript hack given below if you have a static IP address:

1. Select FREE in the download page
2. In the address bar, type: javascript:alert(c=0)
3. Click OK and on the pop-up, click OK again
4. Enter captcha code and start download

If you are using Firefox, try the following hack:

1. Download Firefox and install (if not already installed)
2. Download SwitchProxy and install
3. Search Google for a free proxy server and use it in SwitchProxy
4. Change the proxy server once you reach download limit

Rapidshare places various limits on non-premium or free users of their file-hosting service. First, you need to wait about a minute to get your download slot. For the next download, you are made to wait even more. And you cannot use download managers like DAP with their free service.

Rapidshare premium link generators help you bypass these download limits. Just supply your rapidshare download links to the generator, and start downloading. Below given is a list of these premium link generators.

• RapiDL
• Rsfox
• RapidDownloader
• Rapid-Load
• Senditnow

Rapidshare has a vast collection of movies, music, software, books etc. However, it lacks a search feature. You can make up for this using Google. Type the following string in Google, including quotes:

“rapidshare.com/files” KEYWORD

where KEYWORD is replaced by your search term.

You can also use dedicated search engines which search for files on popular file hosting networks like Rapidshare, Megaupload etc. Here is a list of them:

1. Rapidshare1
2. LoadingVault
3. Rapidshare searcher
4. Filez
5. FilesTube
6. FilesBot