Rapidshare med nye regler. Assistert selvmord?

[Prelude]

For litt over en uke siden så forandret Rapidshare reglene sine og "Premium" pakken man kan kjøpe hos dem.

 

De viktigste forandringene er:

• 1. Nedlastningskvoten blir redusert fra 10GB per dag til 80GB måneden/2.66GB per dag for alle nye kunder.
  
• 2. Oppsamlet reserve-kvote blir redusert fra 50GB til 10GB.
  
• 3. Lagringsplassen forblir uendret på 500GB
  
• 4. Eksisterende kontoer blir ikke tvunget over på den nye trafikk-planen men når kontoen går ut på tid og brukeren fornyer kontoen så trår de nye reglene i kraft.
  
• 5. For eksisterende kunder så blir oppsamlet reserve-kvote fjernet. Ubrukt trafikk kan ikke lengre overførest til neste dag som reserve-kvote.
  
• 6. De gamle reglene er i bruk på alle eksisterende Premium kontoer men du kan ta i bruk det nye TrafficShare systemet.
  
• 7. Filer lastet opp av anonyme, ikke-registrerte brukere kan bare lastes ned av andre personer 10 ganger før systemet blokkerer tilgangen til filene
  
• 8. Ny tjeneste kalt FileMigator trer i øyeblikkelig kraft og kan brukes til å flytte filer mellom Premium og Collector kontoer.
  

Fit for the future

 

October 23, 2008

Really it should state here that we increase the prices. A few weeks ago, we have extended our capacities by 50 Percent, enabling you to download files at highest speed. Your satisfaction is our number one priority. While other webhosting services literally leave you stuck in congested networks, we don’t shy away from any cost and effort, providing fastest servers and connections.

 

It is not just "RAPID" that is important to us, "EASY" is of the same significance for us. For weeks have been contemplating and discussing, how we can balance pricing for our frequent- and less regular users, without getting into a profuse and complex pricing structure. At the same time we want to avoid that our less regular users are financing our frequent users, which would be the case with a general price increase. Though it is us that has to compensate for hardware and internet access. For this reason we have chosen a solution that is fair for all: In the future, the download volumes included in a Premium Account is going to be reduced from 10 Gigabyte a day to 80 Gigabyte a month, at continuous exact daily pro rata billing. The sum of accumulated download-traffic is going to be reduced from 50 Gigabyte to 10 Gigabyte. Personal web storage space is going to continue to be set to 500 Gigabyte. The changes only apply to new Premium Account and extension.

 

Existing Accounts are not affected, aside that due to the change of 10 Gigabyte maximum accumulated traffic, no download volume can be transferred from one day to another. As it is technically not possible to work with various procedures, we have compensated all existing Premium users 50 Gigabyte of traffic volume to their TrafficShare quota. This balance does not expire, as long as you own the Premium Account. You can flexibly apply this quota for your own downloads, should your download balance have run out. The system then automatically allocated traffic in 1 Gigabyte packages from the TrafficShare quota.

 

In the course of the improvements, we have immensely reduced the prices for the TrafficShare packages. By this means, users that require additional download volume, can flexibly make additional purchases at any time, without increasing the cost for less frequent users. The advantage for frequent users is that by any desired increase in TrafficShare balance, maximum download volume is no longer dictated. The advantage for less regular users is that the prices are not going to be increased. By this we also hope to increase the interest in our TrafficShare model. For all existing Premium Accounts the old conditions are in place (10 Gigabyte download per day), however, you can already make use and profit of the new TrafficShare model.

 

It is not the price model only that we have shaped up for the future. A further change is going to effect a small number of users that neither upload their files through a Premium- or Collector’s Account. Files that are stored completely anonymous can now only be downloaded 10 times. Thereafter an error message will appear. However, the file can be moved into a Collector’s- or Premium Account afterwards so that downloading is possible again.

 

Lastly we have a thorough positive announcement: With immediate effect the FileMigrator has been made available, enabling you to move any files between Accounts, namely with the following combinations: From Collector's to Collector's, from Collector's to Premium, from Premium to Collector's, from Premium to Premium. LinkLists can be transferred from Premium- to Premium Account. More information is available in the Collector's-Zone, and respectively in the Premium Zone.

 

 

Mange store forandringer her og på ett blunk har Rapidshare, etter min mening, gått fra å være en av de beste online fil-tjenere til en av de dårligste og dyreste.

 

Rapidshare kontoen min..

You are going to continue to be credited with 10 GB download traffic per day, until 12.05.2009. It is 190 days remaining.

 

Jeg tror det er på tide å se etter andre alternativer iløpet av de 190 dagene...

Endret 3. november 2008 av Prelude