RapidShare Limits Traffic to Drive Away Pirates

If you are trying to "prevent abuse by persistent copyright infringers," this actually seems like a pretty good way to do it.

Swiss-based file-hosting service RapidShare is about to take a drastic step in its ongoing efforts to drive away pirates. Starting later this month free users of the service will be limited to sharing just 1 gigabyte a day while paid users will be allowed to transfer up to 30 gigabytes to the public. RapidShare CEO Alexandra Zwingli says that the new measures will prevent abuse by persistent copyright infringers.

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