Why would anyone pay $10-$15 for these services when they can access torrents for free? Bit Torrent, a method of grabbing a file that is shared in a user-generated cloud of downloaders, is an older method of sharing illegal (and legal) files. If a user buys a premium membership, usually for between $10-$15 per month, they can skip the wait, the file limit and are given faster download speeds. Sometimes, users are also limited to a certain number of downloads in any given day. How do these companies make money? The companies offer the file downloads for free, but require the user wait a certain amount of time, often about a minute, to download a the file. That sounds like it would use up gobs of bandwidth.
These links are then often crawled by popular file search sites. How do people download copyrighted material on filesharing services? Users upload movies, games, television shows and other copyrighted material to a service such as Megaupload or Rapidshare and then post the links on online message-boards. Rapidshare has tried, with questionable success, to shake that reputation in recent years. There are dozens, if not hundreds of competing services, the most notable of which is probably Rapidshare, which was the first such service to really get a reputation as a place to find illegal files. Was Megaupload the only company offering these services? Not at all. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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