Free-Rapidshare-Accounts

Upon uploading, the user is supplied with a unique download URL which enables anyone, with whom the uploader shares the URL, to download the file. No user is allowed to search the server for content.^[1]
RapidShare stated in April 2008 that it had 240 gigabit/s of Internet connectivity and 5.4 petabytes of storage for users.^[3]

Registration and payment allow benefits such as unlimited download speed, download of several files simultaneously, queue skipping, the facility to interrupt and re-start downloads, uploading and downloading bigger files up to 2 GB, allowing Free Users to download their files with Premium privileges ("TrafficShare") and to store up to 500 GB of data that can not expire.

Premium accounts last for a certain number of days. Account validity is measured in seconds, not days. Thus, if you buy a 30 day account, it's valid 30*86400 seconds. The timer starts with your first login. Every premium account is limited to a maximum of 80 GB download traffic per month, divided equally over every day of the month.

If there are 30 days in a month, then the user will receive 5 GB per day.The user is allowed to "save" traffic up to a maximum of 25 GB and can then spend the saved traffic all at once.^[4]

There is also a rewards program that allows the user to trade "RapidPoints" for a selection of products depending on the amount of points the user has collected.

There are restrictions on downloads by non-account holders. Currently they have to wait 15 minutes between downloads and have access to files only between midnight and 1000 CET, although the Rapidshare website claims that the lack of access is caused by their servers being overloaded.