Rapidshare TERMINATING accounts?

I just got this mail and found that my account (Premier) valid till Jan 2010 has been immediately terminated. What the heck?

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Dear RapidShare.com Premium account holder,

Your account has been suspended due to violations of our Terms of Use (http://rapidshare.com/agb.html).
RapidShare TOS States:

*No files with illegal contents, for example pornography, child pornography, racist material and/or unauthorized copies of copyrighted material. This statement of categories is not the completed list.

*We will not tolerate any abuse of our servers for copyright violations and reserve the right to delete any file that has been uploaded and/or distributed in violation of German or international copyrights. Copyright protected content may especially not be distributed to third parties (for example by publishing links to copyright protected files on other websites).

*We will therefore delete any copyright protected file that we find on Internet Forums, warez-sites, etc. and suspend the corresponding account.

*We allow neither uploading nor downloading any illegal content to/from our servers, and reserve the right at anytime to suspend any account found doing so.

It has come to our attention that you have violated the TOS by illegally downloading copyrighted content and therefore your account has been terminated. The terminated account will appear on RapidShare servers for 2-3 days but you will not be granted access to it.

The login data for the terminated account is:

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Login: xxxx
Login Alias: xxxx
Password: xxx
Email: [email protected]
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*Please do not respond to this message as it is an automated service.

Best regards,
RapidShare AG - Support-Team

RapidShare AG
Gewerbestrasse 6
6330 Cham
Switzerland

Web: http://www.rapidshare.com

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I can't believe this. Rapidshare growing a conscience? ANY idea what to do, how to go forth?
Cheers

glad i dont use rapid anymore xD but really that sucks :cry: but rapid will go down and another one will rise xD that is how it happened how it will be hopefully

You sir have been phised or how ever you spell it. I got the same email. I sent Rapidshare my paypal id for my account and got it back within 24 hours.

lolz. Ok. And I thought I was a smart one. Ha.

Rapidshare sucks, ignore it and move on. :)

Aye - just keep it around for the hard to find files on Usenet. Oh well. Gotta wage a war to get this back.

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It has come to our attention that you have violated the TOS by illegally downloading copyrighted content and therefore your account has been terminated.

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so they were monitoring you?

Yeah, looks like you've been phished. RS doesn't disable accounts for uploading/downloading copyright material. That's what most use their service for. I've seen many others get the exact same message that you got.

Certainly do not follow the ignorance(or is it stupidity, haven't decided which one it is yet) of "ignore it and move on". Contact RS and you'll get your account back.

RapidShare will not control Uploads

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October 26, 2008
160 million files have already been uploaded to RapidShare. A number that proves, that the world depends on moving important data from A to B. A number that also proves, that RapidShare with its fast and easy services also addresses users that are no computer nerds.

RapidShare is the first technology worldwide that made sending big files so easy, so fast and so secure. The files can be stored as long as needed and can be recalled from anywhere in the world, they are strictly confidential and can only be accessed by the user that originally loaded them up, or alternatively can be distributed among thousands of people quickly and easily. With a couple of billion page impressions per day we know, that we as a leader will have to pave the way for this new technology. We are aware of the fact that we therefore have big responsibility. If, for example, it had been regulated by law to control all copies before the first photo copier was invented, it is very likely that these machines would have never hit the market. That's why we are doing everything to enable this new technology - which is still very young, but already inspires millions of people every day - to be part of our future and make life more comfortable.

The security of personal data is very important to us, especially in these times. That's the reason why we will not spy out the files that our clients faithfully upload onto RapidShare, not now nor in future. We are against upload control and guarantee you that your files are safe with us and will not be opened by anyone else than yourself, unless you distribute the download link. RapidShare, of course, is against the distribution of illegal files and as soon as we are informed about illegal distribution, we delete these files and put them on a filter. But the general control of uploads is out of the question for us, because we think that especially in these times data privacy comes first.

Source: http://rapidshare.com/news.html

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Make sure u use that LOCK when u recover ur account and change ur pass regulary at least 1 time per semester ;)

Rapidshare is fucking shit now.
Ever since they went from 10gb to 2.5gb I stopped using it.

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Originally Posted by http://rapidshare.com/news.html

HappyHours for Premium customers

March 19, 2009
We will now implement HappyHours for our Premium customers, so you can use our infrastructure in the best possible way. Currently, the HappyHours will be active from 2 a.m. until 10 a.m. Central European Time since that is the only time during which there is unused bandwidth left. During that time, only 10% of the data volume you download will be charged to your traffic balance. So if you download 300 Megabytes during HappyHours, only 30 Megabytes will be accounted. This applies also if you use RapidPoints or TrafficShare for your downloads.
The amount of unused traffic that can be accumulated has been raised from 12 Gigabytes to 15 Gigabytes.
Please note that this has to be regarded as a test, and we can reverse the modifications or change the time and percentage rate of the HappyHours at any time if neccessary.

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Originally Posted by james223

Rapidshare is fucking shit now.
Ever since they went from 10gb to 2.5gb I stopped using it.

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I have yet to run out of credit and I have downloaded HD rips through rapidshare. I don't know how you only get 2.5GB.

My account has 45 Gigs if traffic left it says. Remember that if you run out of download credit you can convert your TrafficShare to download credit. I have 15 gigs+40 of TrafficShare right now.

Plus at the bottom it says in red that you get credited 10 gigs daily. So I don't know how anyone would need more than that. If you use that plus your TrafficShare you need to be doing what mmmmm 50-60 gigs per day to run out?