Why are Rapidgator and Drop.Download the popular "Upload" sites?

[EMS]

RG has been around for a long time, way back when FS and RS were about. For the premium account holder they are supposed to be good but the thing about RG is they periodically purge files so you'll find pages and pages of dead RG links.

 

[frisbee]

You guys appear to be overlooking RG's affiliate program which has been around for years. By way of history, a similar Germany based hoster called RapidShare had a massive share of the global hosting market for years, having built it's popularity with an affiliate program. Basically, people could receive healthy credits per 1,000 DL's of their files and for referring new users to RS. Ultimately, RS was subject to significant ongoing litigation that ended up in the Supreme Court in Germany. You can Google it if you are interested. The demise of RS led to the rise of Megapload which was also eventually shutdown by legal action against its owner, named Kim.Com. He is the current owner of Mega and resides in New Zealand still trying to fend off litigation. Anyway, other hosters naturally appeared and filled the void left by those two major players with RG aopting the affiliate program approach. Some users are able to make a living out of the affiliate program, but I'll leave it to some of the high volume uploaders to provide qualified commentary on that point. So, the reason that RG became popular is its affiliate program. I know little about Drop.Download but suggest you check to see if they have affiliate arrangements in place.

https://rapidgators.net/affiliate-program/

 

[frisbee]

RG has been around for a long time, way back when FS and RS were about. For the premium account holder they are supposed to be good but the thing about RG is they periodically purge files so you'll find pages and pages of dead RG links.

RG deletes inactive files that have been UL'd by free users, but not premium account files. It is common for some users to share other people's links, so if the original UL'er's account is deleted due to non-payment or service violations, those links are killed. This explains why you may see pages of a particular users links mostly dead, but others are still live.

 

[KezzaHub]

Like frisbee mentioned, RG is historically linked to THE biggest host "back in the day" when I first encountered da interwebs and RS. Guess I'm old fashioned but RG has my premium dollars and their links are all over the place. On DW, I'm basically guaranteed an RG link. Nitro seems the next most popular but, as I'm paying out for RG Premium, I'm in no rush to spend my cash anywhere else. The only corner of the web where RG really have little to no profile is in pr0n download sites (at least, the ones I go to...lol).

 

[EMS]

RG deletes inactive files that have been UL'd by free users, but not premium account files. It is common for some users to share other people's links, so if the original UL'er's account is deleted due to non-payment or service violations, those links are killed. This explains why you may see pages of a particular users links mostly dead, but others are still live.

most if not all autoposters have a preium account with RG and you'll even see it on this site RG are deleted almost as quickly as they are posted. it matters not.....its all about DMCAs not whether a link is premium or not.

 

[sickpuhpee]

There are pros and cons about any premium host site out there. Each has it's collection that ranges from extremely disappointed users to those who have been subscribers for several long years that can do nothing but sing their praises. A few are primarily the haven for prodigious amounts of porn sprinkled with a small offering of more general use data while a small number of others, like Rapidgator that boast a long established presence, whose primary line of of users are seeking out and finding more current programs, films, books and audio, have loyal uploaders posting links in the vast majority of warez sites. Uploaded and Nitro follow behind from what I see currently.
At 27 cents a day, annual membership runs roughly 100 bucks, you get 12 TB of bandwidth to consume over the course of that subscription year usually at the limit of your ISP speed while doing so. I have yet to reach the annual limit and I consider myself a user with a hearty appetite for downloading.
If an individual wishes to spend time either searching relentlessly for free user hosts to obtain their desired product or are willing to sacrifice the enormous time restraints placed on available data for free users then no harm no foul.
I am one of the 100% satisfied direct annual subscribers to RG and have been for a few years now and think that for the price of roughly a US quarter a day the result of a cost/benefit ratio falls into the "very well worth it" category.

Do NOT use a RG reseller that does not give you full control over your account, you will get screwed one way or another with the reseller usually accusing you of sharing the user name and passcode with others in vague language when "your" account becomes blocked or deactivated suddenly before reluctantly assisting you.

Just my two cents.

 

[frisbee]

Interestingly, one of the key issues discussed in Court in both the RapidShare and Megaupload matters was their failure to proactively monitor for obvious signs of piracy. Whilst RG certainly responds to DMCA notices by killing files, it clearly does little if anything to actively auto kill files that clearly are DMCA breaches. Have a look at some of the file names in links to of big name movies that have remained untouched by RG for years. Even Blind Freddy could at RG could tell what they are. With it now being rare for folks to encrypt RAR files, which was common a few years ago to hide content, it is easy for RG, et al to monitor a black list of popular movies, tv shows, etc. Despite that, RG are not proactive. Either they are operating out of a country that cares little about copyright, or their day in the witness box as Defendant won't be far off.

 

[Rickkins]

I tried one of those places which was one of the most popular and has been around a long time and the Rapidgator wouldn't work with Jdownloader when it was supposed to, asked for a Refund and they just RIPPED ME OFF, never giving it to me, even though I complied with their refund rules. Sent a request several times, and they just took my money and ignored me.

So, I don't think I'll EVER use one of those places again. Though, I know you guys have been referring that Real Debrid for some time here as liking it.
Though, I just saw the title of someone who's stopped using it, need to look for it to see why.

Alas, not all "Debrid" site are created equally. I have been with "Alldebrid" a full decade now and would simply never drop it(in it's current state)
I also use another called "Debrid-link" for those times when RG links are acting up. Thing to remember here is, that companies like RG et al hate these debrids, for obvious reasons. so it can be a game of cat and mouse.
As for jdownloader, personally I've never liked that one, preferring IDM myself.