I think that came out wrong - losing money makes no difference to them. Of course it means a lot to them, but any corporation that's serious about its business will be prepared (and have the financial means) to lose money during the course of its business should that help it profit more in the longer term.
They may have lost a lot of premium subscribers owing to their discontinuation of the rewards scheme. But they've potentially saved themselves millions of dollars in the lawsuits they'd otherwise face trying to upkeep the rewards system. To them, it would have clearly been more beneficial, otherwise they would not have scrapped the rewards system.
Having said that, I still trust in Rapidshare, and I still have no difficulty whatsoever finding Rapidshare links for everything, new and old alike. That, for me, is enough proof Rapidshare still is going strong. Yes, the frequency of the links may have gone down, but it's not near zero, something that happened with Hotfile, and rapidly so. Hotfile did not even discontinue the rewards program yet they lost a major chunk of uploaders. Imagine what would have happened to them had they adopted Rapidshare's approach. Imagine what would happen to every filehost if it goes Rapidshare's route? People still favor Rapidshare over these new filehosts, for reasons more than obvious. And if all of them stopped paying, Rapidshare would clearly dominate. It may not dominate now, according to Alexa, but it isn't an underdog either
They may have lost a lot of premium subscribers owing to their discontinuation of the rewards scheme. But they've potentially saved themselves millions of dollars in the lawsuits they'd otherwise face trying to upkeep the rewards system. To them, it would have clearly been more beneficial, otherwise they would not have scrapped the rewards system.
Having said that, I still trust in Rapidshare, and I still have no difficulty whatsoever finding Rapidshare links for everything, new and old alike. That, for me, is enough proof Rapidshare still is going strong. Yes, the frequency of the links may have gone down, but it's not near zero, something that happened with Hotfile, and rapidly so. Hotfile did not even discontinue the rewards program yet they lost a major chunk of uploaders. Imagine what would have happened to them had they adopted Rapidshare's approach. Imagine what would happen to every filehost if it goes Rapidshare's route? People still favor Rapidshare over these new filehosts, for reasons more than obvious. And if all of them stopped paying, Rapidshare would clearly dominate. It may not dominate now, according to Alexa, but it isn't an underdog either
. People are probably using their servers all the time now because of that and this is what happens,
