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x264–BB DDL Forum Says Goodbye To RapidShare, Embraces Hotfile

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In the last couple of years, the leading one click hosting service RapidShare was hugely popular among uploaders on various Direct Download Link (DDL) forums. However, with the recently announced changes to RS’s rewards program (link – read second post), this might soon change. Several leading DDL forums have already ditched RapidShare for other services and the latest site to join the club is x264-BB. For those who don’t know what x264-BB is, it’s a popular forum for m-HD (MicroHD), 720p and 1080p movie encodes with a lot of exclusive releases (for a detailed post on this forum with registration info, read the full review located here). It appears that all of x264-BB’s internal encoder groups have decided not to upload any of their releases to RapidShare anymore. Their new upload destination? Hotfile.

The site’s decision to abandon RS is explained in detailed in a forum post (which is quoted below):
This is an official notice to all members of x264-BB.com that Encoders Group will no longer providing Rapidshare download links. After much discussions, Encoders Group had came to an amicable decision that only Hotfile links will be supplied in all future new releases.
Question: What about existing Encoders Group releases?
We will be deleting all current Rapidshare plus other mirror links on x264-BB, only Hotfile links will be supplied.
Question: Are we allowed to make request for other mirrors?
No. We do not allow any mirrors to be made from now. Do not ask for mirrors in the forum, you will be banned as you had been officially notified.
Question: Hotfile sucks for Free Users, why is Hotfile a better choice?

Because Megaupload sucks for its rewards program and extremely frustrating for uploading management. Encoders Group wants to spend more time on providing better quality releases rather than to waste time on sorting out missing uploaded files or unable to find the uploaded files in MU's File Manager. Hotfile's FTP upload has much faster upload speed and more stable than Netload's FTP upload. Netload's storage is frequently proned corrupted files and unrecoverable files due to hard disk crashes and never been able to recover and again, Netload's reward program is nothing compared to Hotfile's.
Question: Why not consider other file hosts such as SharingMatrix, FileServe or x7.to etc..?
See for yourself: http://i30.tinypic.com/2s9btbc.jpg
Hotfile has the biggest reach to global users than any of the file hosts compared.
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While Hotfile is indeed a good one click hosting service, it does have several restrictions for free users.

  • Limited download speed
  • Maximum parallel downloads limited to 1
  • 60 second wait time
  • Downloads restricted to 1 file per 30 minutes
  • No support for download accelerators, download resuming, direct linking
In addition, the download speeds on Hotfile are reportedly slow for some regions in the world. The thread on X264-BB announcing the change has met with some interesting responses with some users suggesting Megaupload, etc in place of Hotfile. However, the admin panel’s decision has so far been unchanged and judging by their responses it’s unlikely to change in future as well. Note that this change would only apply for releases by x264-BB’s internal encoder group – there are no hosting provider restrictions on user uploads and members are still free to use whatever service they prefer, including RapidShare.


On a side note, x264-BB is currently open for registration. This forum indexes m-720P, m-864P, m-HD, m-DVD, 720p and 1080p movies along with TV shows and documentaries. They have a lot of exclusive releases not found elsewhere, thanks to their internal encoder group. A detailed review of x264-BB can be found here.


Site Name: x264-BB (http://x264-bb.com)


Signup URL: http://x264-bb.com/register.php
 
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never heard of them must not be that big

also i'd hate to burst their bubble but i doubt they keep their unique encodes guarantee they are on wbb/hd-bb
 
People are gonna leech their hf links and supply em on other file hosts anyway :P

But its a good thing they are leaving RS . RS definately deserves this :)
 
RS didn't make this move because they wanted to. Although they've won a couple of court cases, it's not unlikely that, if they continue to give rewards, they will be completely shutdown in one of the other coming law suits.

They are just taking precautions. What would be worse, slimming down or getting shut down completely?
 
now the download mirroring will come to end. Hotfile already banned many DC IPs. So now users have to download and upload using their fucking home connection.
 
This is a noob decision from a bunch of greedy rippers there.

Till now there were RS+ other mirrors,but now some rippers are going to make it HF only

Its true that uploaders are not interested in RS anymore but what is wrong with other mirrors?
 
sniffdog said:
RS didn't make this move because they wanted to. Although they've won a couple of court cases, it's not unlikely that, if they continue to give rewards, they will be completely shutdown in one of the other coming law suits.

They are just taking precautions. What would be worse, slimming down or getting shut down completely?
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Exactly. Everyone is thinking that they have killed themselves but a company the size of Rapidshare doesn't make quick noob like decisions without thinking things through. Obviously their was huge legal pressure on them to do something. Also nobody knows financially how RS is doing.
Don't say RS is killing themselves when it's just a few less quid from uploads in your pocket. They can easily launch a fantastic reward scheme tomorrow and you'll all come crawling back saying how great it is. Nobody has any idea of their profits, turnover, legal pressure, etc so don't pretend like you know.
For all anyone knows the sales of Rapidshare premium accounts and Rapids could have gone way up since this move as you can no longer generate your own accounts. Would you lose a few thousand hits and downloads if your proffits and turnover quadrupled? Of course you would!
 
^ I seriously doubt that they're getting more sales, just check the scene blogs and read a few comments, people are dying for RS links that they can't find and regret buying a a 6 month-1year accts.
 
Mr-R-T said:
^ I seriously doubt that they're getting more sales, just check the scene blogs and read a few comments, people are dying for RS links that they can't find and regret buying a a 6 month-1year accts.
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True, but if their sales go down say 10% their profits still go up as the amount of free accounts and rewards is still a lot higher in terms of cost from their point of view. Anyway I'm only speculating. You never know.
 
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