Many of you have commented about it and Shiny made
a brief post on the fact that RapidShare IS UP AND RUNNING AGAIN.
I
thought I’d still post an article about why it was down, for those of
you who are interested in the battle between Pirates and the law.
Edit: Ive corrected the post now,
the previous news was simply speculation. The following is the
statement of a RapidShare employee about the whole situation.
As of 19 January 2008 16:00 GMT, Rapidshare’s servers appear to be
offline. There are rumors that Rapidshare has been shut down by the
authorities after a court order, however, court records do not reveal
any issued Rapidshare court order as of yet. Rapidshare technician
Steven Gircham has 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)”
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