Popcorned1 Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 RapidShare Rumored To Have Been Shut Down There are rumors that Rapidshare.com, the German file sharing and data storage giant, has been shut down by the authorities after a court order. German collections agency GEMA have reportedly won a temporary injunction against both RapidShare.de and RapidShare.com, according to a report. However no court records have revealed any issued Rapidshare court order as of yet. Currently rapidshare.com is not working but rapidshare.de is. Users have been experiencing errors such as: "The following error was encountered: * Connection Failed The system returned: connection refused" A Wikipedia entry was made that read: "As of 19 January 2008 16:00 GMT, Rapidshare AG?s servers were shutdown by anti-piracy authorities in Germany. More than hundreds of Rapidshare servers were seized from their offices in Berlin although no arrests were made. Sources said, authorities are contemplating pursuing legal action against users who distribute and download pirated copies of software and movies from these servers." It was quickly removed. Rapidshare.com, formerly Rapidshare.de, has been widely used as a vehicle for the transfer and sharing of pornography. Site such as HCMF.com commonly used the site as a means of perpetuating the illegal sharing of pornography. A NSFW and EXTREMELY graphic example of its use (or abuse, depending on your view) can be found here. (you must be 18) As you can see, below the photo are the links to where the pieces needed to make one file exist (or existed) on Rapidshare. Rapidshare.com, and Filefactory.com have also been abused by spammers, says Dave Marcus, security research and communications manager for McAfee's Avert Labs. The "official" word is that the downtime is said to have been caused by a server overload. Rapidshare technician Steven Gircham has reportedly commented on this issue - "There are rumors concerning attacks made on the Rapidshare.com servers. There are also rumors that Rapidshare has been shut down by a court order. These rumors are false. We would like to apologize to our users and inform them that no data has been lost. There have been some hardware issues as a result of high bandwidth and server overload. We are doing our very best to resolve the hardware issues, and users should expect uptime by midnight tonight (GMT)" you can still view the site via IP - 80.239.151.250 They either got DOS attacked, and are having trouble getting there DNS working or they want it to at least appear that way. At the moment, it would appear that they where NOT taken down by any "anti-piracy orginizations" Source Note : This relates to www.rapidshare.com. www.rapidshare.de is a different company. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/614644-rapidshare-rumored-to-have-been-shut-down/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
x-scratch Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 rumors false rapidshares still running Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/614644-rapidshare-rumored-to-have-been-shut-down/#findComment-589147718 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mshepp Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 rumors false rapidshares still running Hope so otherwise i'll be wanting a refund. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/614644-rapidshare-rumored-to-have-been-shut-down/#findComment-589147722 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slimy Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 ^ Doesn't work for me. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/614644-rapidshare-rumored-to-have-been-shut-down/#findComment-589147723 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merter Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 ^ Same Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/614644-rapidshare-rumored-to-have-been-shut-down/#findComment-589147729 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightwind Hawk Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 It works fine for me... just because it went down for a bit doesn't mean the company was shot down =\ Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/614644-rapidshare-rumored-to-have-been-shut-down/#findComment-589147731 Share on other sites More sharing options...
(Spork) Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 www.rapidshare.com down for me Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/614644-rapidshare-rumored-to-have-been-shut-down/#findComment-589147733 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rappy Veteran Posted January 19, 2008 Veteran Share Posted January 19, 2008 You might mean rapidshare.de which is a different company. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/614644-rapidshare-rumored-to-have-been-shut-down/#findComment-589147734 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin-uk Veteran Posted January 19, 2008 Veteran Share Posted January 19, 2008 I assume its not been shut down since access via IP is still available. i'd say a dns issue or something similar.. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/614644-rapidshare-rumored-to-have-been-shut-down/#findComment-589147735 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeroday Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 Yeah, IP works for me as well, albeit it loads slow. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/614644-rapidshare-rumored-to-have-been-shut-down/#findComment-589147736 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popcorned1 Posted January 19, 2008 Author Share Posted January 19, 2008 ^ I would be careful, it could of been a phising site setup in the spur of the moment. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/614644-rapidshare-rumored-to-have-been-shut-down/#findComment-589147738 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rappy Veteran Posted January 19, 2008 Veteran Share Posted January 19, 2008 I assume its not been shut down since access via IP is still available. i'd say a dns issue or something similar.. I was just chatting to someone who heard its a dos attack Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/614644-rapidshare-rumored-to-have-been-shut-down/#findComment-589147746 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoom7000 Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 I certainly hope it hasn't gone down. Otherwise I'll be wanting a refund too! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/614644-rapidshare-rumored-to-have-been-shut-down/#findComment-589147759 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hani Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 it's down for me Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/614644-rapidshare-rumored-to-have-been-shut-down/#findComment-589147766 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yochanan Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 It's been down all day for me. I was wondering what happened. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/614644-rapidshare-rumored-to-have-been-shut-down/#findComment-589147844 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popcorned1 Posted January 19, 2008 Author Share Posted January 19, 2008 Right, Rapidshare is having DNS issues atm. You can download a hosts file which will allow you to regain access Hosts File. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/614644-rapidshare-rumored-to-have-been-shut-down/#findComment-589147874 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldago Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 It seems to be a dns problem. There's a list of static ip's floating around that added to your hosts file makes rs work again just wait for the dns to update or look for the static ip's list. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/614644-rapidshare-rumored-to-have-been-shut-down/#findComment-589147875 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricksterto Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 For the latest developments, there is a story that is being updated at: http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original...212125521.shtml Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/614644-rapidshare-rumored-to-have-been-shut-down/#findComment-589147880 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Veteran Posted January 19, 2008 Veteran Share Posted January 19, 2008 Aww, I was almost hoping someone would have to make something better to replace RapidShare :( Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/614644-rapidshare-rumored-to-have-been-shut-down/#findComment-589147888 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricksterto Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 Thanks for the hosts file; working like a charm! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/614644-rapidshare-rumored-to-have-been-shut-down/#findComment-589147898 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pc_Madness Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 Working for me? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/614644-rapidshare-rumored-to-have-been-shut-down/#findComment-589147957 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted January 19, 2008 MVC Share Posted January 19, 2008 Rapidshare works for me. I have it setup for direct download and I just tried a link and it worked. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/614644-rapidshare-rumored-to-have-been-shut-down/#findComment-589147965 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rappy Veteran Posted January 19, 2008 Veteran Share Posted January 19, 2008 It's back now for me. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/614644-rapidshare-rumored-to-have-been-shut-down/#findComment-589147968 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dvb2000 Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 ^ Doesn't work for me. Works fine here - maybe your ISP is blocking it? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/614644-rapidshare-rumored-to-have-been-shut-down/#findComment-589147974 Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadgeek9 Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 It loads up for me. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/614644-rapidshare-rumored-to-have-been-shut-down/#findComment-589147977 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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