Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

Nah. As mentioned before, they were a great place to store all manner of random files. During their golden age, having a place to put random "stuff", especially large files, was a killer feature.

The problem was their new model completely precluded sharing of any kind. Imagine Drive or Dropbox, but without the ability to give links to your files, and you can see how useless the service became. You don't out-dropbox Dropbox.

As usual, lawyers ruin everything.



Lawyers didn't really ruin this, RapidShare banking on piracy to sustain their business model ruined their business.


Well piracy wouldn't have been a problem if it weren't for the lawyers.


Lawyers neither make nor enforce the laws. If you want to blame someone, blame the lawmakers...




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: