Rapidshare Down ?

TheToonArmy · 13/05/10 - 20:07

Is rapidshare.com down, it was up this afternoon but now I cannot get on, which is unusual for RS.

Thanks in advance

jjesso123 · 13/05/10 - 20:15

TheToonArmy wrote: »

Is rapidshare.com down, it was up this afternoon but now I cannot get on, which is unusual for RS.

Thanks in advance

Nope downloading somthing of it now legal of cauase;)

also who is you internet provider i have heard that sky are banning acess to rapidshare,megaupload ect.

TheToonArmy · 13/05/10 - 20:17

Thanks for the reply, its a strange one, I can ping the addresss but cannot access through both ie and firefox.

jjesso123 · 13/05/10 - 20:23

TheToonArmy wrote: »

Thanks for the reply, its a strange one, I can ping the addresss but cannot access through both ie and firefox.

try rebooting the router if not just give it try in mourning

TheToonArmy · 13/05/10 - 20:25

jjesso123 wrote: »

try rebooting the router if not just give it try in mourning

just tried that and no luck.

its not just this pc it's others.

TheToonArmy · 13/05/10 - 20:33

I think some of its servers must be down as I just ran a status and I am getting a "Lock" status ( whatever that means )

can anybody you try this link http://samspade.org/and type www.rapidshare.com in box provided and check the status. and report back

thanks in advance

TheToonArmy · 13/05/10 - 20:35

https://ssl.rapidshare.com/premiumzone.html works, this is strange

[Deleted User] · 13/05/10 - 20:53

Not working for me either or megaupload

flagpole · 13/05/10 - 21:50

i'm hearing it's down for virgin customers.

Also you can get round it with the https trick.

I'm sure virgin will say it's technical. But you can't help but think they are testing the water.

BustedCat · 13/05/10 - 22:16

I've heard from various sources that Virgin Media are blocking Rapidshare for "bandwidth reasons"

Just phoned up virgin media and asked and they said it's been blocked due to high bandwidth usage from rapidshare and megaupload and that the block is inforce from 4:45pm and 10pm

flagpole · 13/05/10 - 22:34

you'd think that blocking torrents, and their peak time throttling would be enough.

It doesn't seem fair to me that you agree to certain terms and conditions and they change them.

Seems that if virgin are going to keep offering people faster and faster broad band they need to work on their backhaul too.

TheToonArmy · 13/05/10 - 22:51

I'm trying to be calm about the possibility of virgin blocking rapidshare but I have been downloading tonight by changing the link from http to https, you would have thought that virgin would have blocked that as well.

So I thinking its maybe a glitch.......please.....

Burstfire · 13/05/10 - 23:10

TheToonArmy wrote: »

I'm trying to be calm about the possibility of virgin blocking rapidshare but I have been downloading tonight by changing the link from http to https, you would have thought that virgin would have blocked that as well.

So I thinking its maybe a glitch.......please.....

Its not a glitch, people have already phoned up.

http://195.122.131.250/ if you need to access the site, they have done it on purpose. The real question we have to ask is how long do they intend to ban it for?

jjesso123 · 13/05/10 - 23:14

Burstfire wrote: »

Its not a glitch, people have already phoned up.

http://195.122.131.250/ if you need to access the site, they have done it on purpose. The real question we have to ask is how long do they intend to ban it for?

for ever most likely its probaly more to do with them not wanting to send out those stupid letters resulting in losing customers and its not just them more and more isp's will follow.

flagpole · 13/05/10 - 23:25

jjesso123 wrote: »

for ever most likely its probaly more to do with them not wanting to send out those stupid letters resulting in losing customers and its not just them more and more isp's will follow.

nope, not that.

Nobody knows who downloads what from rapidshare. And it does not and can not result in letters.

You are mistaken.

Gogfumble · 13/05/10 - 23:29

Same with me.

A quick way to change all the links to https if you have a list of them is copy and paste the list into notepad then use Edit>Replace to change all the http to https.

You can then import them into your download manager.

I use Free Download Manager so I copy the edited list go to FDM and do File>Import>Import list of URLs from clipboard.

Viola

p.s. VM are swines.

BustedCat · 13/05/10 - 23:31

flagpole wrote: »

nope, not that.

Nobody knows who downloads what from rapidshare. And it does not and can not result in letters.

You are mistaken.

It's probably just down to bandwidth issues. They look at the data and see that people are downloading so many GBs of data a day from Rapidshare so they decide to block it.

jjesso123 · 13/05/10 - 23:33

flagpole wrote: »

nope, not that.

Nobody knows who downloads what from rapidshare. And it does not and can not result in letters.

You are mistaken.

At the momment but eventually i can see them doing somthing only reason rapidshare megaupload ect get way with so much is becuase the countrys there servers hosted in so dont think the goverment can request the uploaders ip adress. it dont matter about downloaders going after them pointless if go after major uploader you hit the scene hard. at the momment the major push illegal pear to pear but that push result on direct server downloaders being more common so goverment push hard things like megaupload rapidshare ect. virgin and other companys doing this now helps them future so they dont have start sending out letters and then cancelling contracts.

Faust · 13/05/10 - 23:34

This has to be good news for honest and fair users of the Internet, well done to Virgin, if indeed they are behind this denial of service.

flagpole · 13/05/10 - 23:39

jjesso123 wrote: »

At the momment but eventually i can see them doing somthing only reason rapidshare megaupload ect get way with so much is becuase the countrys there servers hosted in so dont think the goverment can request the uploaders ip adress. it dont matter about downloaders going after them pointless if go after major uploader you hit the scene hard. at the momment the major push illegal pear to pear but that push result on direct server downloaders being more common so goverment push hard things like megaupload rapidshare ect. virgin and other companys doing this now helps them future so they dont have start sending out letters and then cancelling contracts.

it's just not legal to intercept someone's internet traffic like that. And over https it's not possible either. It will never happen.

The only reason virgin are doing this is because of network capacity.

flagpole · 13/05/10 - 23:44

Faust wrote: »

This has to be good news for honest and fair users of the Internet, well done to Virgin, if indeed they are behind this denial of service.

that's extremely short sighted of you. Can you not see a problem with your isp deciding which sites you can view?

How about other high bandwidth sites? What about the iPlayer? Would it be ok if virgin just decide to block access to it to save bandwidth? Who gets to decide what perfectly legal sites it's ok for them to block?

I would appreciate an answer.

Burstfire · 13/05/10 - 23:46

flagpole wrote: »

that's extremely short sighted of you. Can you not see a problem with your isp deciding which sites you can view?

How about other high bandwidth sites? What about the iPlayer? Would it be ok if virgin just decide to block access to it to save bandwidth? Who gets to decide what perfectly legal sites it's ok for them to block?

I would appreciate an answer.

Exactly, we are not china, we have a right to choose what sites we view and what we download. If they are going to do this what stops them blocking other sites because they feel like it?

D3XT3R · 14/05/10 - 00:04

Whats next,blocking legitimate sites that use a lot of Bandwidth such as PSN(legal film DL's,games etc...)Apple also legal DL's the world now revolves around DL content to your games console,PC etc as the providers know they can hook more people this way.Its just anothe rway to push customers over the edge and force them to look elsewhere,fortunately Virgin know they have the fastet BB out there and so very few customers would probably leave over this.But at least the secure rapidshre works fine:D

TheToonArmy · 14/05/10 - 00:47

I was using orbit as my download manager, just switched to jdownloader and it has a setting to use the https automatically without having to change the link manually.

Sorted....

ForestChav · 14/05/10 - 01:03

I love jdownloader. It resides permanently on my linux box and I use the web ui. That box is always up for IRC anyway, so it's no big deal.

TheToonArmy · 14/05/10 - 01:06

Being using Orbit for about 2 years now and have only just tonight started using jdownloader and so far, its fantastic, not just because it gets around the virgin block automatically but it feels more advanced

Hey there!

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