direct news from RapidShare on 7 dec. 2006

Unfortunately we had to reactivate the traffic limit due to the traffic trend during the time without a download limit. The high traffic volume was mostly caused by abuse of several accounts. We're sorry that the measures we have to take against this abuse also introduce restrictions to honest customers. But solving problem by means of a traffic limit is better than raising the prices of premium accounts

We have also changed the captchas (code pictures) free users have to enter before downloading, because there has also been massive abuse.

These changes bring advantages for normal users who have average (or slightly above average) traffic needs. We hope there will be more speed for your downloads available now. We apologize for slow download speed on certain servers during the last few days.