19 января 2008, серверы AG'S Rapidshare были закрыты властями антипиратства в Германии. Больше,чем сотни серверов Rapidshare были захвачены из их офисов в Берлине, хотя никакие аресты не были сделаны. Источники сказали, власти собираются преследовать судебный иск против пользователей, которые распространяют и загружают ограбленные копии программного обеспечения и кинофильмов на этих серверах.
As of 19 January 2008 16:00 GMT, Rapidshare's servers appear to not be responding, this is from two causes:
1. The DNS servers are not responding so web browsers don't know what address to try to connect to.
2. The servers 195.122.131.2 - 195.122.131.15 and 195.122.131.250 are not responding on port 80; however 80.239.151.250 is responding on port 80.
* This could be caused by a down link on the path to that address space.
The response from rapidshare's DNS servers before the incident is listed below:
rapidshare.com has address 195.122.131.250
rapidshare.com has address 80.239.151.250
rapidshare.com has address 195.122.131.2
rapidshare.com has address 195.122.131.3
rapidshare.com has address 195.122.131.4
rapidshare.com has address 195.122.131.5
rapidshare.com has address 195.122.131.6
rapidshare.com has address 195.122.131.7
rapidshare.com has address 195.122.131.8
rapidshare.com has address 195.122.131.9
rapidshare.com has address 195.122.131.10
rapidshare.com has address 195.122.131.11
rapidshare.com has address 195.122.131.12
rapidshare.com has address 195.122.131.13
rapidshare.com has address 195.122.131.14
rapidshare.com has address 195.122.131.15
There are rumors that Rapidshare has been shut down by the authorities after a court order, however, court records do not reveal any issued Rapidshare court order as of yet. The downtime is said to be caused by a server overload (a result of too many downloads, and thus, increasing bandwidth). Rapidshare have yet to comment on this issue.
refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RapidShare