Rapidshare Questions

mrbluesman · Respected VIP club member Joined: 15 Mar 2007 Posts: 525

I have asked these questions a few times in individual threads, but no one has really given an answer. So, I'll try here.

First, why do people post RS links and embed them in a quote box so that instead of clicking the link, you must cut and paste the link and put it in your browser address box. The same goes for people who type the link: "h**p..." (or some variation like "hxxp"). I really don't get it. If the purpose is to keep the link alive longer, how does this help? People are still using the link, so the same number are dl the set. All it does is make it more time consuming and a pain to get that set. I just don't understand the purpose. In addition, if there is a mole or someone from the site in here looking, they know the link code whether its embedded in a box or letters are messed around. It just makes no sense to me.

Also, why put passwords on the sets. Again, I have no idea what purpose this serves. What is a reason to password protect these sets?

I'm not asking these questions to be negative. I'm simply trying to figure out the reasons. Thanks for any input.

Abraxas · Administrator Joined: 05 May 2006 Posts: 2303

If you report to Rapidshare that porn from your company is being posted there, RS adds it to their list and automatically seeks out and deletes materials that match their own site`s forbidden list. Protecting your files using passwords avoids the file being opened and deleted by RS staff.

Altering the address or using the CODE feature stops robots and spiders from trolling the site and sucking up the links, because the robots and spiders look for live links (hotlinks), not links embedded inside of CODE tags.

PS I am going merge this post with one of the existing Rapidshare threads and then I am going to send it to the Internet security related forum so the RS info is all stored in that section of the forum. So reply now if you want to add anything to this member`s query.

mrbluesman · Respected VIP club member Joined: 15 Mar 2007 Posts: 525

OK, thanks for the answers.

Monkey D. Ruffy · Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 9:27 pm Post subject:

Yes, Abraxas is right.

If you post clickable links (hotlinks), the referer tells RS, where the links comes from (Forumophilia) and if the site is on their black list, it's obvious for them that the file contains illegal stuff.

And if there are no pass, they could have a closer look to verify their initial suspicion.

As long as I get free pr0n, I'll don't mind about pass and encryption.

Monkey D. Ruffy

Abraxas · Administrator Joined: 05 May 2006 Posts: 2303

Yep, as Monkey D. Ruffy has said, which I overlooked mentioning, is the problem relating to referrer site. If you post a link here and I click it, that tells RS which site I came from, and too much traffic from one forum, such as ours, could lead Rapidshare to blacklist our forum.

AKAbob · Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 3:19 am Post subject: