Re: [SurroundSound] Re: New Rapidshare Plans

I just logged in to RS to check what happened to my premium account. It seems it was auto
transformed into a RapidSmall account (4 'rapids' per day).

My old 'premium' account was due to expire this month, but now it seems I've another 156
days of being a RapidSmaller.

On 5/07/2010 5:55 PM, grill wrote:
> Being only a downloader my situation is fairly simple. I bought the
> cheapest package (RapidSmall) and I've disabled the auto-upgrade. This
> way I have now max. 1 Gb traffic / day at cost of 4 rapids on my
> premium account.
>
> On júl. 5, 05:52, Savagepagan<savagepa...@verizon.net> wrote:
>> What I do not understand is how do they charge us and is it possible
>> to delete/cancel/unsubscribe to RS. I got that email saying I was
>> being automatically upgraded(to rapidmedium) also with a new charge of
>> 20 rapids per day. How much is that? I only download(I exceeded my
>> 1gb amount for the day I think). I have nothing stored. I really do
>> not trust this new model of theirs. I will stop using this service
>> immediately. I can not even find out when my premium acct. expires.
>> I emailed them requesting my account be deleted/deactivated etc. I
>> don't trust these new changes. I am also using hotfile.com.
>>
>> On Jun 30, 5:44 pm, "Lokkerman"<phil.steep...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Guys
>>> We need to discuss this one as it has seriously curtailed OD and perhaps we
>>> need to decide whether or not we ultimately move to deposit files or
>>> flefactory or whatever.
>>
>>> This is what I discussed with OD today on the subject, so it is my take,
>>> please correct me where I am wrong:
>>
>>> "RS's change is strangely geared away from individuals to large entities. I
>>> think if you also read it there is a licence disclaimer version which the
>>> file owner then takes the rap. Therefore I think the model is geared towards
>>> low volume/bandwidth downloads and not large volume/high bandwidth; which
>>> are placed in the realm of the corporate or large volume user. (My view is)
>>> It would make your blog unsustainable unless you post things and remove them
>>> cyclically.
>>> Oddly it also turns the focus away from the FLAC and back to MP3 because of
>>> the lower bandwidth.
>>
>>> We will now see how it affects RS financially as I think many folk will not
>>> renew and shift to File factory et al.... - they are already claiming they
>>> now are the largest provider.
>>
>>> A also think that if I were a business provider I would seriously look hard
>>> at a company that changes a fundamental service offering without
>>> consultation and with very little warning. The two services should have been
>>> run in parallel to phase the new service in and that way they could judge
>>> the performance of the new product."
>>
>>> So please comments
>>
>>> cheers
>>> Lokks- Idézett szöveg elrejtése -
>>
>> - Idézett szöveg megjelenítése -
>

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