QUOTE (heavensounds @ Jan 15 2008, 07:20 AM)

Yeah Rapidshare is good and all, but the problem is that you still have to register, meaning you have to pay for the service if you really want to use it. On the other hand torrents are completely free and that is a BIG plus to a lot of people!
Personally I think that everything today that is not completely free is too expensive for most of the internet-users!
So Rapidshare is good to download a file or two you can't find anywhere else, but to use it instead of torrents? I don't think so...
Not only is there the charge associated with RapidShare, there is also the slow download speeds. Many people complain about having 200 kb/s speeds or so when they are capable of 1 mb/s or more.
I find Torrents to be much better because you are able to pause and resume, if you get dc'd it's not an issue, they're free, etc.
Honestly I even prefer torrents over places like FilePlanet. Their downloader keeps corrupting game clients and torrents have never been corrupted for me.
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