Rapidshara has grown to 10 petabytes

Pressure on Pirate Bay and other torrent trackers is of little use in the holy fight against pirated software. Anti-piracy company VI Labs conducted a study and found that the result of the fight against torrents was only the migration of warez to anonymous file hosting. To verify the experts made a list of software from 43 manufacturers, and 100% of the positions of this list was found on RapidShare.

Unconditional leadership in the number of Varese belongs to the giant RapidShare, which has already reached the 17th place among the largest Internet sites. A spokeswoman for RapidShare in a recent interview with the NY Times admitted that their repository had already grown to 10 petabytes. And this is despite the fact that, at the request of the copyright holders, they delete 1-2% of all files uploaded daily (by the way, some rightholders give RapidShare direct access to their database, and they can monitor downloads in real time and delete everything they want).

At peak times, Rapidshara holds up to 3 million simultaneous connections (downloads and downloads). According to the analytical company Ipoque, this site alone generates about 5% of all traffic on the Internet.